Honeycreeper

Honeycreeper
	male red-legged honeycreeper.
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Aves
Order:	Passeriformes
Family:	Thraupidae
Genus:	Cyanerpes; Oberholser, 1899
Species
	Four, all classed as Least Concern

The typical honeycreeper is a small bird in the tanager family. They are found in the tropical New World from Mexico south to Brazil.

They occur in the forest canopy, and, as the name implies, they are specialist nectar feeders with long curved bills.

The four Cyanerpes species have colourful legs, long wings and a short tail. The males are typically glossy purple-blue and the females greenish.

The green honeycreeper is called a honeycreeper, but belongs to the monotypic genus Chlorophanes. It has a larger, stouter beak than the Cyanerpes group, and is less heavily dependent on nectar. The golden-collared honeycreeper, is also a honeycreeper, but is monotypic in the genus Iridophanes.

Eggs

A commonly repeated, yet false, belief about the various honeycreeper species is that some of them lay black eggs.[1] This idea was first made known in the scientific community with the 1899 publication of Nehrkorn's egg catalog; Nehrkorn's claim was cited in ornithological literature for many years without verification, but by the 1940s it was established that none of the members of Cyanerpes lay such eggs.

Species

Name	Common name	Distribution
Cyanerpes nitidus	Short-billed honeycreeper	Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, Suriname, and Venezuela
Cyanerpes lucidus	Shining honeycreeper	Mexico to Panama and northwest Colombia
Cyanerpes caeruleus	Purple honeycreeper	Colombia and Venezuela south to Brazil, and on Trinidad.
Cyanerpes cyaneus	Red-legged honeycreeper	southern Mexico south to Peru, Bolivia and central Brazil, Trinidad and Tobago, and on Cuba

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References

Eugene Eisenmann (1953). "What Bird Lays Black Eggs?". Auk. 70 (3): 362–363. doi:10.2307/4081327.

External links

Honeycreeper videos, photos and sounds on the Internet Bird Collection

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[1] Eugene Eisenmann (1953). "What Bird Lays Black Eggs?". Auk. 70 (3): 362–363. doi:10.2307/4081327.