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The Red-legged Honeycreeper is a small relative of the tanagers that is very common in Central and northern South America from Mexico south to Brazil. The species has a catholic diet and will feed on fruit, insects, and even nectar in a variety of forest habitats. The male is a brilliant blue with a turquoise head, black bill and eye mask, black wings, back, and tail, and the eponymous red legs; however, after breeding, males have a molt that produces a dull eclipse-type plumage, which is atypical of Neotropical passerines. Females are pale green throughout with dull legs. doi.org/10.2173/bow.relhon1.01
Picture taken at Costa Rica.
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Attitude
To start a new week! Have a Peaceful Blue Monday!
The Red-legged Honeycreeper is a small relative of the tanagers that is very common in Central and northern South America from Mexico south to Brazil. The species has a catholic diet and will feed on fruit, insects, and even nectar in a variety of forest habitats. The male is a brilliant blue with a turquoise head, black bill and eye mask, black wings, back, and tail, and the eponymous red legs; however, after breeding, males have a molt that produces a dull eclipse-type plumage, which is atypical of Neotropical passerines. Females are pale green throughout with dull legs. doi.org/10.2173/bow.relhon1.01
Picture taken at Costa Rica.
Thanks a lot for your visits, comments, faves, invites, etc. Very much appreciated!
© All my images are protected under international authors copyright laws and may not be downloaded, reproduced, copied, transmitted or manipulated by any means without my written explicit permission, including the use on websites and similar medias. All rights reserved. Please contact me at thelma.gatuzzo@gmail.com if you intend to buy or use any of my images.
My instagram if you like: @thelmag and @thelma_and_cats