Red-legged Honeycreeper
Cyanerpes cyaneus
- Class
- Bird
- Rarity
- Common
- Observations
- 5,994
- Most observed in
- 🇨🇷 Costa Rica
- Conservation
- Least Concern
Description
The red-legged honeycreeper (Cyanerpes cyaneus) is a small songbird in the family Thraupidae, the tanagers and allies. It is regularly found in Mexico, every Central American country, Trinidad and Tobago, and every mainland South American country except Argentina, Chile, Paraguay, and Uruguay. It has also occurred as a vagrant in the United States, Argentina, and some southern Caribbean islands.
Summary adapted from the Wikipedia article “Red-legged honeycreeper”.