female; generally lime-green; blue streaks on breast (Panama; 2008-06-21)
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Shining Honeycreeper
Cyanerpes lucidus
Native Range:
Latin America
Notes:
a spritely tanager with a long decurved bill that it uses to sip nectar from flowers; shows striking sexual dimorphism with the male (not pictured here) displaying a dark shining-purple plumage and the female being mostly lime-green but with blue streaks on her breast.
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