Red-legged Honeycreeper

Taxonomy

Order

Passeriformes

Family

Thraupidae

Genus

Cyanerpes

eBird Code

relhon1

Vocalizations

Subspecies (11)

• Cyanerpes cyaneus brevipes

  central Amazonian Brazil from at least Manacapuru eastward to middle Rio Tocantins

• Cyanerpes cyaneus carneipes

  eastern and southern Mexico from Guerrero and southern Tamaulipas southward through Panama (including Coiba Island and the Pearl Islands) to northwestern Colombia (upper Sinú Valley, Córdoba); also Cuba

• Cyanerpes cyaneus cyaneus

  tropical southeastern Venezuela and Trinidad to the Guianas and northeastern Brazil (southward to Rio Negro and mouth of the Amazon River)

• Cyanerpes cyaneus dispar

  eastern Colombia to southern Venezuela, western Brazil (eastward to Rio Negro and Rio Juruá), and northeastern Peru

• Cyanerpes cyaneus eximius

  tropical northern Colombia to northern Venezuela including Isla Margarita

• Cyanerpes cyaneus gemmeus

  northern Colombia (Serranía de Macuire on Guajira Peninsula)

• Cyanerpes cyaneus gigas

  Gorgona Islands (off Pacific coast of Colombia)

• Cyanerpes cyaneus holti

  eastern Brazil

• Cyanerpes cyaneus pacificus

  Pacific coast of western Colombia and western Ecuador

• Cyanerpes cyaneus tobagensis

  Tobago

• Cyanerpes cyaneus violaceus

  central Bolivia and western Brazil