Green Honeycreeper Photo by Ann Doty

Green Honeycreeper

Chlorophanes spiza

Adult female

©Ann Doty

Location: Ecuador > Pichincha
Date: Jun 20, 2019
Caption: #photocontest2019

Milpe Bird Sanctuary
Pichincha Ecuador
with VENT tour guide Michael O'Brien

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.