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Green Honeycreeper

Chlorophanes spiza

Description:

Description The Green Honeycreeper is 13–14 cm (5-5.5 in) long and weighs 14 to 23 grams, averaging about 19 grams. It has a long decurved bill. The male is mainly blue-tinged green with a black head and a mostly bright yellow bill. The female Green Honeycreeper is grass-green, paler on the throat, and lacks the male's iridescence and black head. Immatures are plumaged similar to females. The call is a sharp chip. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Green_Honey...

Habitat:

This is a forest canopy species. The female Green Honeycreeper builds a small cup nest in a tree, and incubates the clutch of two brown-blotched white eggs for 13 days. It is less heavily dependent on nectar than the other honeycreepers, fruit being its main food (60%), with nectar (20%) and insects (15%) as less important components of its diet. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Green_Honey...

Notes:

The female was shot on April 27, 2010 at the Asa Wright Nature Centre http://www.asawright.org/about/index.htm...

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WillRountree
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WillRountree

Trinidad and Tobago

Spotted on Apr 23, 2010
Submitted on Oct 8, 2011

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