This Blog contains Wildlife, Plants and Bird Photos from Walks, Safaris, Birding Trips and Vacations. Most of the pictures have been taken with my Nikon P900 and P950X cameras. Just click on any image for a larger picture. On the right column under the Blog Archive are the entries by date. Below that under Animal categories all the diffent species of Animals, Birds, Insects and Plants contained in the website are listed. Clicking on any entry will show all the entries for that species.
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Wednesday, 29 March 2017
19-3-2017 BUTTERFLY WORLD, FLORIDA - MALACHITE BUTTERFLY (Siproeta stelenes)
26-3-2017 RANCHO NATURALISTA - ZEBRA LONGWING BUTTERFLY (Heliconius charithonia)
26-3-2017 RANCHO NATURALISTA - RED POSTMAN BUTTERFLY (Heliconius erato)
Tuesday, 28 March 2017
26-3-2017 RANCHO NATURALISTA - BANDED PEACOCK BUTTERFLY (Anartia fatima)
23-3-2017 TROGON LODGE COSTA RICA - LONG TAILED SILKY FLYCATCHER (Ptiliogonys caudatus)
28-3-2017 TARCOLES RIVER COSTA RICA - GREEN HONEYCREEPER (Chlorophanes spiza)
The green honeycreeper (Chlorophanes spiza) is a small bird in the tanager family. It is found in the tropical New World from southern Mexico south to Brazil, and on Trinidad. It is the only member of the genus Chlorophanes.
The green honeycreeper is 13–14 cm (5.1–5.5 in) long and weighs 14 to 23 grams (0.49 to 0.81 oz), averaging about 19 grams (0.67 oz). It has a long decurved bill. The male is mainly blue-tinged green with a black head and a mostly bright yellow bill. The female green honeycreeper is grass-green, paler on the throat, and lacks the male's iridescence and black head. Immatures are plumaged similar to females. The call is a sharp chip.
This is a forest canopy species. The female green honeycreeper builds a small cup nest in a tree, and incubates the clutch of two brown-blotched white eggs for 13 days. It is less heavily dependent on nectar than the other honeycreepers, fruit and seeds being its main food (60%), with nectar (20%) and insects (15%) as less important components of its diet.