Cyanerpes cyaneus
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In 3 days ~30% in a week ~60%
The red-legged honeycreeper (Cyanerpes cyaneus) is a small songbird in the family Thraupidae, the tanagers and allies. It is regularly found in Mexico, every Central American country, Trinidad and Tobago, and every mainland South American country except Argentina, Chile, Paraguay, and Uruguay. It has also occurred as a vagrant in the United States, Argentina, and some southern Caribbean islands.
The red-legged honeycreeper was formally described by the Swedish naturalist Carl Linnaeus in 1766 in the twelfth edition of his Systema Naturae with the binomial Certhia cyanea. Linnaeus based his description on "The Black and Blue Creeper" that had been described and illustrated in 1760 by the English naturalist George Edwards from a specimen collected in Suriname. The purple honeycreeper was named the type species of the genus Cyanerpes when the American ornithologist Harry C. Oberholser erected the genus in 1899. The specific epithet cyaneus is a Latin word meaning "dark-blue".
The purplish honeycreeper (Chlorophanes purpurascens), a bird from Venezuela known only from the type specimen, is considered to be an intergeneric hybrid between the green honeycreeper... Wikipedia →
| # | City | Country | Daily sighting probability |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Havana | 🇨🇺 Cuba | |
| 2 | Campo Grande | 🇧🇷 Brazil | |
| 3 | Panama City | 🇵🇦 Panama | |
| 4 | João Pessoa | 🇧🇷 Brazil | |
| 5 | Maceió | 🇧🇷 Brazil | |
| 6 | San Salvador | 🇸🇻 El Salvador | |
| 7 | San José | 🇨🇷 Costa Rica | |
| 8 | Guatemala City | 🇬🇹 Guatemala | |
| 9 | Miami | 🇺🇸 United States | |
| 10 | Caracas | 🇻🇪 Venezuela |
| # | Zoo / Centre | Country | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Basel Zoo | 🇨🇭 Switzerland | |
| 2 | ZooParc de Beauval | 🇫🇷 France | |
| 3 | Tierpark Berlin | 🇩🇪 Germany | |
| 4 | Zoo Pilsen | 🇨🇿 Czechia | |
| 5 | Parc des oiseaux | 🇫🇷 France | |
| 6 | Omaha’s Henry Doorly Zoo and Aquarium | 🇺🇸 United States | |
| 7 | Toledo Zoo | 🇺🇸 United States | |
| 8 | Burgers' Ocean | 🇳🇱 Netherlands | |
| 9 | Royal Burgers' Zoo | 🇳🇱 Netherlands | |
| 10 | Wilhelma | 🇩🇪 Germany | |
| 11 | Houston Zoo | 🇺🇸 United States | |
| 12 | La Paz Waterfall Gardens | 🇨🇷 Costa Rica | |
| 13 | Aviario Nacional de Colombia | 🇨🇴 Colombia | |
| 14 | Universeum | 🇸🇪 Sweden | |
| 15 | Key West Butterfly and Nature Conservatory | 🇺🇸 United States | |
| 16 | Butterfly World | 🇺🇸 United States |
With luck
About 10% of wildlife watchers report a Red-legged Honeycreeper sighting in Montes Azules Biosphere Reserve on a given day, based on 38 verified sightings from GBIF citizen-science data from 2019 to 2026. It is the 122nd most-seen of the 240 birds we can rate there. Over three days the chance rises to about 30%, and over a week to about 60%, if each day is a fresh chance.
May
In that month about 40% of wildlife watchers report a Red-legged Honeycreeper in Montes Azules Biosphere Reserve on a given day, against under 5% in August, the lowest month.
Between 7 and 10 am
Across all the parks we cover, that three-hour window holds the most Red-legged 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.
26th of 57
Of the 57 parks where we can rate Red-legged Honeycreeper sightings, Montes Azules Biosphere Reserve ranks 26th at about 10%. The best odds are in Brownsberg Nature Park (Suriname, about 70%), El Triunfo (Mexico, about 50%) and Arenal Volcano National Park (Costa Rica, about 40%). All parks ranked.
Same family: Thraupidae
The closest relatives of the Red-legged Honeycreeper that you can see in Montes Azules Biosphere Reserve (family Thraupidae, Tanagers and Allies) are Black-headed Saltator (about 30%), Morelet's Seedeater (about 30%) and Blue-gray Tanager (about 30%), with each one's daily chance of a sighting.
GBIF citizen-science records
It is estimated from how often the Red-legged Honeycreeper is recorded against all the birds logged in Montes Azules Biosphere Reserve (38 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.
