Purple Honeycreeper

Cyanerpes caeruleus (Linnaeus, 1758)

Purple Honeycreeper, Cyanerpes caeruleus, is a tanager relative that breeds in Middle America and northern South America, including Panama. It was named by Linnaeus in 1758. The bird is linked with forest canopies, and it also turns up in cocoa and citrus plantations. Its range reaches from west of the Andes through the Amazon Basin and the Guianas, with a coastal strip in the west and an extension to the far western Pantanal. It is usually seen in lowlands, though it can occur much higher, and the Trinidad form has a longer bill than mainland birds.

Order

Passeriformes

Family

Thraupidae — Tanagers & Allies

Breeding range

Middle America, South America: nw, n, also Panama