Green Honeycreeper Photo by Ann Doty

Green Honeycreeper

Chlorophanes spiza

Adult

©Ann Doty

Location: Ecuador > Sucumbíos
Date: Jun 16, 2019
Caption: #photocontest2019

Sacha Lodge - Canopy Walk
Sucumbios, Ecuador
with Sacha Lodge guide Oscar Tapuy

Note the short, curved bill. Males are a unique green-blue color with black hood and a banana yellow beak. Female resembles female Red-legged Honeycreeper but is larger, brighter, uniform green, with yellow lower bill and grayish legs.