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Red-legged Honeycreeper

Cyanerpes cyaneus

Description:

The Red-legged Honeycreeper (Cyanerpes cyaneus) is a small songbird species in the tanager family (Thraupidae). It is found in the tropical New World from southern Mexico south to Peru, Bolivia and central Brazil, Trinidad and Tobago, and on Cuba, where possibly introduced.

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kdpicturemaker
kdpicturemaker 10 years ago

You're right! They could almost be twins except someone switched the colour code.

Aisse Gaertner
Spotted by
Aisse Gaertner

Maricá, RJ, Brazil

Spotted on Nov 15, 2013
Submitted on Dec 16, 2013

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