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            The red-legged honeycreeper (cyanerpes cyaneus) is a small songbird species in the tanager family (thraupidae). It is found in the tropical New World from southern Mexico south to Peru, Bolivia and central Brazil, Trinidad and Tobago, and on Cuba. The male is violet-blue with black wings, tail and back, and bright red legs. The crown of its head is turquoise, and the underwing, visible only in flight, is lemon yellow. After the breeding season, the male moults into an eclipse plumage, mainly greenish with black wings. Females and immatures are mainly green, with paler, faintly streaked underparts. The legs are red-brown in the female, and brown in young birds.
This is a species of forest edge, open woodland, and cocoa and citrus plantations. It feeds on insects and some seeds, fruit and nectar.

Costa Rica, La Fortuna

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Taken in: Costa Rica / Provincia de Alajuela / La Fortuna / La Fortuna (show map)

Taken on: May 9, 2025

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