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 LC    Short-billed Honeycreeper* Id (Atlas):
    Cyanerpes nitidus

Description (10)
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Family
Thraupidae (Tanagers)

Size
9 - 10.70 cm

First Described (Guide)
(Hartlaub, 1847)

Habitat
Subtropical and tropical moist lowland forest.

Range (Guide)
Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, Suriname, Venezuela.

South-eastern Colombia (from eastern base of Andes in Caquetá, Vaupés, and Guainí­a) east to southern Vene­zuela (Amazonas and north-western and central Bolí­var), Guyana, Suriname and possibly French Guiana, south through eastern Ecuador to north-eastern Peru (south to Pasco, Huánuco and Ucayali) and western Brazil (east to eastern Amazonas and, south of R Amazon, to northern Rondônia and extreme north-western Mato Grosso).
 
Population
Estimated population is unknown (2010).

Status LC
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Voice
Xeno-Canto Sound Files (more (12)...)

 
Short-billed Honeycreeper (Cyanerpes nitidus) [XC257131]
     by id from Loreto: 3 km SE of Jeberos, Peru (call)

 
Short-billed Honeycreeper (Cyanerpes nitidus) [XC592756]
     by Jerome Fischer from Reserva Natural Palmar\u00ed, Rio Javar\u00ed, AM, Brazil (call)

Subspecies
No subspecies.

This genus and Dacnis were previously regarded as members of a separate family, Coerebidae, but later placed in present family on basis of similarities in skull anatomy. Molecular phylogenies indicate that the two genera are sisters and form a monophyletic group with Tersina.


References
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Files:
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