Purple ash bird
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![]() Purple ashbird ( Cyanerpes caeruleus ), male |
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Cyanerpes caeruleus | ||||||||||||
( Linnaeus , 1766) |
The Purple Honeycreeper ( Cyanerpes coeruleus ) is a bird art of the genus of HONEYCREEPER ( Cyanerpes ) from the family of the Tanager (Thraupidae). It is found in tropical America ( Neotropics ) from Colombia and Venezuela south to Brazil as well as on Trinidad . Some (possibly abandoned) specimens from Tobago have also been reported.
The natural habitat of the purple ash bird is the canopy of the forest, but it can also be found in cocoa and citrus plantations. The female builds a small bowl-shaped nest in a tree and incubates a clutch of two white, brown-speckled eggs there.
The purple ash bird is 11.5 cm long, weighs 12 g and has a long, black, downward-curved beak. The male is purple with black wings, tail and belly, and bright yellow legs. Females and juveniles have a green upper and a green dashed, beige-yellow underside. Their throats are cinnamon-colored and they have a blue streak of beard.
In the Trinidad subspecies C. c. longirostris the beak is longer than that of the continental forms. The call of the purple ash bird is a high srii.
The purple ash bird often forms small groups. It feeds on nectar, berries and insects, mainly in the canopy. He willingly answers the call of the Brazilian pygmy owl ( Glaucidium brasilianum ) (Portuguese: caburé ).
Systematics and distribution
In addition to the nominate form , four subspecies are described:
- Cyanerpes caeruleus microrhynchus ( Berlepsch , 1884) - Eastern Colombia , Southern Venezuela , Northern Bolivia to the western part of the Brazilian Amazon
- Cyanerpes caeruleus hellmayri ( Gyldenstolpe , 1945) - Guyana
literature
- Hilty: Birds of Venezuela. ISBN 0-7136-6418-5 (English).
- ffrench : Birds of Trinidad and Tobago. ISBN 0-7136-6759-1 (English).
Web links
- Cyanerpes coeruleus in the endangered Red List species the IUCN 2008. Posted by: BirdLife International, 2008. Accessed January 2 of 2009.
- Videos, photos and sound recordings of Cyanerpes caeruleus in the Internet Bird Collection
- Avibase data set " purple ash bird "