green honeycreeper

Adult male. Looks more bluer than greener but it's because of the light conditions !

Seen by the feeder at Selva Verde Lodge, Costa Rica

A female

Visiting the fruit feeders in the garden we visited. This is the male, a picture of the female to follow shortly.

Green Honeycreeper (Chlorophanes spiza subsp. caerulescens) Male, species sexually dimorphic. Foraging in a Kapok tree. Between Tarmac and La Merced, San Ramon, Peru. Roadside overlooking a steep mountainside. Mesic temperate forest at ca. 1,660 m (5,446 ft) elevation. August 2017

Nome Cientfico Chlorophanes spiza (Linnaeus, 1758) Nome em Ingls Green Honeycreeper

Green Honeycreeper Chlorophanes spiza (Linnaeus, 1758)

Nome Cientfico Chlorophanes spiza (Linnaeus, 1758) Nome em Ingls Green Honeycreeper

Green Honeycreeper (Chlorophanes spiza subsp. caerulescens) Female, species sexually dimorphic. North of Tarapoto, San Martn, Per along Hwy. 13 en route to the Tunnel. Roadside, tropical rainforest at ca. 610 m (2,000 ft) in the foothills of the Cordillera Escalera.

Green Honeycreeper (Chlorophanes spiza subsp. caerulescens) Male, species sexually dimorphic. North of Tarapoto, San Martn, Per along Hwy. 13 en route to the Tunnel. Roadside, tropical rainforest at ca. 610 m (2,000 ft) in the foothills of the Cordillera Escalera.

Green Honeycreeper (Chlorophanes spiza subsp. arguta) Male, species sexually dimorphic. Foraging in or on Weeping Bottlebrush (Callistemon viminalis). Wilson Botanical Gardens, southeast of San Vito, Puntarenas Province, Costa Rica. Landscaped grounds from 1,000-1,100 m (3,281-3,609 ft).

Green Honeycreeper (Chlorophanes spiza subsp. arguta) Female, species sexually dimorphic. Foraging in or on Weeping Bottlebrush (Callistemon viminalis). Wilson Botanical Gardens, southeast of San Vito, Puntarenas Province, Costa Rica. Landscaped grounds from 1,000-1,100 m (3,281-3,609 ft).

Green Honeycreeper (Chlorophanes spiza subsp. caerulescens) Female, species sexually dimorphic. Sometimes but not often, the species is named after the female (her coloration). Cabaas Copalinga, south of Zamora, Zamora-Chinchipa Province, Ecuador. Landscaped lodge grounds mixed with montane...

Green Honeycreeper (Chlorophanes spiza subsp. exsul) Male, species sexually dimorphic. Umbrellabird Lodge in Buenaventura Reserve, just west of Pias, El Oro Province, Ecuador. Western slope of the Andes; tropical cloud forest at ca. 800 m (2,625 ft) elevation.

Green Honeycreeper (Chlorophanes spiza) and Bananaquit (Coereba flaveola). I watched this behavior unfold three times. The first time I had no witnesses but the last two times my wife and others got to see it. The first time the Green Honeycreeper grabbed the Bananaquit by the tail let it...

Measuring 13.5 cm in length. It feeds on fruits, insects and flower nectar.

Green Honeycreeper

Green Honeycreeper (Chlorophanes spiza argutus) Seven subspecies are recognized with only subspecies argutus being mapped for Panama. Photographed from top of the Canopy Tower at canopy level in a Guacimo Colorado Tree (Luehea seemannii: Tiliaceae) Panama Province, Panama. Humid forest at ca...

Green Honeycreeper (Chlorophanes spiza argutus) Seven subspecies are recognized with only subspecies argutus being mapped for Panama. Photographed from top of the Canopy Tower at canopy level, Panama Province, Panama. Humid forest at ca. 228 m (750 ft) elevation. Species sexually dimorphic.

Thanks to Rick and Elis Simpson for showing me this and many other birds. The reason the background is plain is there was a wall of a house behind the branch the bird was sitting on. The photo has only been cropped with no other manipulation

Green Honeycreeper (Chlorophanes spiza argutus) Seven subspecies are described with subspecies argutus being the only one mapped for Costa Rica. Photographed at Si Como No Resorts Wildlife Refuge in Quepos, Puntarenas Province, Costa Rica. Lowland wet rainforest at about 26 m (85 ft)...

Green Honeycreeper (Chlorophanes spiza argutus) Seven subspecies are described with subspecies argutus being the only one mapped for Costa Rica. Photographed at Si Como No Resorts Wildlife Refuge in Quepos, Puntarenas Province, Costa Rica. Lowland wet rainforest at about 26 m (85 ft)...

This bird on photos often looks bluer than I think it is in real life -- this is one of those photos