Turquoise HoneyCreeper

Turquoise Honey creeper-

(Blue Dacnis)

 Dacniscayana

Photographed at Toronto Zoo, Toronto, Canada   Sep 2011

The Turquoise Honeycreeper, also called the Blue Dacnis, is a small tanager distributed throughout parts of Central American and tropical South America. It is generally in mating pairs or found even in mixed species flocks.

Blue Dacnis males are bright blue with a black throat, black above the bill and around the eyes, mostly black wings, and a black tail. The females are bright green with a bright blue head and blue shoulders. Both sexes have red eyes, reddish legs and feet, and a sharply pointed bill with a reddish base.

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