Shining Honeycreeper (Cyanerpes lucidus)

Family
Thraupidae (Tanagers)

Size
10 - 11.40 cm

First Described (Guide)
(Sclater & Salvin, 1859)

Habitat
Subtropical and tropical moist lowland forest. From sea-level - 1,600 m.

Range (Guide)

Belize, Colombia, Costa Rica, Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico, Nicaragua, Panama.

Population
Estimated population is 50,000 - 499,999 (2010).

Status LC
For more information see BirdLife International Species Factsheet.

Voice
Xeno-Canto Sound Files (more (5)...)

Shining Honeycreeper (Cyanerpes lucidus) [XC641735]
by Scott Olmstead from Parque Nacional San Lorenzo, Col\u00f3n, Panam\u00e1, Panama (call)

Shining Honeycreeper (Cyanerpes lucidus) [XC404235]
by Mike Nelson from Monta\u00f1a de Agalta , Sector El Murmullo-Las Delicias , Departamento de Olancho, Honduras (call)

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. Thought to form a superspecies with Purple Honeycreeper (Cyanerpes caeruleus) and in the past sometimes treated as conspecific, but the two are sympatric in extreme eastern Panama and adjacent north-western Colombia.

The following 2 subspecies are recognised:

lucidus (Sclater & Salvin, 1859) - Foothills of Gulf-Caribbean slope of southern Mexico (eastern Chiapas) through north-central Guatemala, Belize (Cockscomb Mts) and northern Honduras to north-eastern Nicaragua.
isthmicus Bangs, 1907 - Costa Rica (entire eastern slope, and Pacific slope in San Jos�) south to eastern Panama and adjacent extreme north-western Colombia.

References
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Files:

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