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Green honeycreeper (female)

Chlorophanes spiza

Photo by Ismael Chaves
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Description:

The Green Honeycreeper is 13–14 cm long and weighs 14 to 23 grams, averaging about 19 grams. It has a long decurved bill. The male is mainly blue-tinged green with a black head and a mostly bright yellow bill. The female Green Honeycreeper is grass-green, paler on the throat, and lacks the male's iridescence and black head.

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