Tanagers & Allies

Shining Honeycreeper

Cyanerpes lucidus

The Shining Honeycreeper (Cyanerpes lucidus) is an 11 g forest bird that eats a bit of everything. It stays put all year.

Family

Tanagers & Allies

Order

Passeriformes

Weight

11 g

Habitat

Forest

Diet

Fruit and nectar

Migration

Resident

Countries recorded

7

Recorded in Costa Rica, Panama, Guatemala, Honduras, Belize, Nicaragua, Mexico.

Where to see it: Estación Biológica La Selva-OTS (Costa Rica); Canopy Tower (Panama); Arenal Observatory Lodge (Costa Rica); PN Pico Bonito · Lodge at Pico Bonito (Honduras); Pipeline Road (Camino del Oleoducto) (Área general) (Panama).

Photo: (c) Anthony Batista, some rights reserved (CC BY) via iNaturalist