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Birds
Red-legged honeycreeper
Red-legged honeycreeper · Cyanerpes cyaneus
The red-legged honeycreeper immediately catches the eye in tropical canopies with its brilliant blue and red legs as it searches for flowers and fruit.
Fact file
- Size
- Body length about 12 cm, weight around 14 grams
- Males and females
- Male intensely blue with black, female greenish with blue
- Sounds
- High, thin "tsik" as a call
- Diet
- Feeds on nectar, fruit and insects
- Offspring
- Lays two eggs, incubation around two weeks in dense branches
How to identify Red-legged honeycreeper
The red-legged honeycreeper impresses with its bright turquoise-blue plumage, which shimmers especially intensely in the males. During the breeding season males have a deep blue head and body colour with a black wing mask and velvety black wings. The females are more inconspicuous: their plumage is predominantly greenish to olive with blue-tinged wing edges.
Both sexes have striking red legs and a long, slightly curved bill. The birds look delicate and short-tailed, are about the size of a sparrow and have a compact silhouette. The large flocks often reveal themselves by the males’ bright blue in the foliage.
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