Chlorophanes spiza
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In 3 days ~90% in a week >90%
The green honeycreeper (Chlorophanes spiza) is a species of bird in the family Thraupidae, the tanagers and allies. It is found in the tropical New World from southern Mexico south to Brazil, and on Trinidad. The green honeycreeper was formally described in 1758 by the Swedish naturalist Carl Linnaeus in the tenth edition of his Systema Naturae under the name Motacilla spiza. He specified the type locality as Suriname. The specific epithet is the Ancient Greek word for a common finch. Linnaeus based his description on the "green black-cap fly-catcher" that the English naturalist George Edwards had described and illustrated in his 1743 book A Natural History of Uncommon Birds. In 1853 the German naturalist Ludwig Reichenbach erected the genus Chlorophanes to accommodate the green honeycreeper. The name combines the Ancient Greek khlōros meaning green with -phanēs meaning showing.
For a time in the twentieth century the green honeycreeper and the golden-collared honeycreeper (Iridophanes pulcherrimus) were treated as conspecific. The genus Chlorphanes was placed in the family Coerebidae that was later merged into Thraupidae. A comprehensive molecular phylogenetic... Wikipedia →
| # | City | Country | Daily sighting probability |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Cali | 🇨🇴 Colombia | |
| 2 | Panama City | 🇵🇦 Panama | |
| 3 | Santos | 🇧🇷 Brazil | |
| 4 | Caracas | 🇻🇪 Venezuela | |
| 5 | San José | 🇨🇷 Costa Rica |
| # | Zoo / Centre | Country | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Woodland Park Zoo | 🇺🇸 United States | |
| 2 | Memphis Zoo | 🇺🇸 United States | |
| 3 | La Paz Waterfall Gardens | 🇨🇷 Costa Rica | |
| 4 | Como Park Zoo and Conservatory | 🇺🇸 United States | |
| 5 | Como Zoo | 🇺🇸 United States | |
| 6 | Bird Kingdom | 🇨🇦 Canada | |
| 7 | Key West Butterfly and Nature Conservatory | 🇺🇸 United States |
Likely
About 50% of wildlife watchers report a Green Honeycreeper sighting in Arenal Volcano National Park on a given day, based on 9,287 verified sightings from GBIF citizen-science data from 2019 to 2026. It is the 13th most-seen of the 503 birds we can rate there. Over three days the chance rises to about 90%, and over a week to over 90%, if each day is a fresh chance.
October
In that month about 70% of wildlife watchers report a Green Honeycreeper in Arenal Volcano National Park on a given day, against about 40% in January and June, the lowest months.
Between noon and 3 pm
Across all the parks we cover, that three-hour window holds the most Green Honeycreeper sightings with a recorded time, and about 9 in 10 of them come between 6 am and 6 pm: it is a daytime animal.
3rd of 43
Of the 43 parks where we can rate Green Honeycreeper sightings, Arenal Volcano National Park ranks 3rd at about 50%. The best odds are in Farallones de Cali National Natural Park (Colombia, about 70%) and Chagres National Park (Panama, about 60%). All parks ranked.
Same family: Thraupidae
The closest relatives of the Green Honeycreeper that you can see in Arenal Volcano National Park (family Thraupidae, Tanagers and Allies) are Scarlet-rumped Tanager (about 80%), Blue-gray Tanager (about 70%) and Bananaquit (about 60%), with each one's daily chance of a sighting.
GBIF citizen-science records
It is estimated from how often the Green Honeycreeper is recorded against all the birds logged in Arenal Volcano National Park (9,287 verified sightings from 2019 to 2026), calibrated against known sighting rates. Figures are rounded to the nearest 10% because citizen-science data supports honest approximations, not decimals, and months with records from fewer than five people show "—". How it works.
