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Male
Photo by ramontranquilo
Bastimentos Island, Bocas del Toro, Panama, April 2010

Cyanerpes lucidus

[edit] Identification

10 cm
Male

• Purple plumage
• Black wings, tail and throat
• Long black decurved bill
• Bright yellow legs
  

Female

• Green upperparts
• Greenish-blue head
• Buff throat
• Buff-streaked bluish underparts
  

Immature: similar to the female, but has a greener head and breast.

[edit] Distribution

Central and South America: Central America: Mexico, Guatemala, Belize, El Salvador, Honduras, Nicaragua, Costa Rica and Panama
South America: found only in Colombia.

[edit] Taxonomy

[edit] Subspecies^[1]

There are 2 subspecies:

• C. l. lucidus:

• Southern Mexico (Chiapas) to Belize, Guatemala and northern Nicaragua

• C. l. isthmicus:

• Costa Rica to Panama and extreme north-western Colombia

[edit] Habitat

Forest canopy and forest edges.

[edit] Behaviour

[edit] Diet

The diet includes nectar, berries and insects.

[edit] Breeding

The female builds a cup-shaped nest which is placed in a tree - she also incubates the two eggs.

[edit] References

1. Clements, JF. 2009. The Clements Checklist of Birds of the World. 6th ed., with updates to December 2009. Ithaca: Cornell Univ. Press. ISBN 978-0801445019.
2. Avibase
3. Wikipedia

• List of references

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