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Red-legged Honeycreeper (immature)

Cyanerpes cyaneus

Description:

The Red-legged Honeycreeper is on average 12.2 cm long, weighs 14 g and has a medium-long black, slightly decurved, bill. The male is violet-blue with black wings, tail and back, and bright red legs. The crown of its head is turquoise, and the underwing, visible only in flight, is lemon yellow. After the breeding season, the male moults into an eclipse plumage, mainly greenish with black wings. Females and immatures are mainly green, with paler, faintly streaked underparts. The legs are red-brown in the female, and brown in young birds.

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Ismael Chaves
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Ismael Chaves

Heredia, Costa Rica

Spotted on Oct 21, 2013
Submitted on Oct 21, 2013

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