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Chlorophanes spiza · Family Thraupidae

Chlorophanes spiza

Family Thraupidae

Order
Passeriformes
Family
Thraupidae
GBIF occurrence records
280,853
Countries and territories with records
25
Green Honeycreeper
Luizalves1990 · Área de Relevante Interesse Ecológico do Morro do Boa Vista - Luiz Alves (01).jpg · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Luizalves1990 · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons · Recordings may be trimmed and re-encoded; photos are cropped and resized.
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About this species

This species has 280,853 occurrence records from 25 countries and territories (GBIF, 21 October 2026). Most records come from Costa Rica (38.9%), Colombia (25%), Panama (9.7%), Ecuador (8.2%) and Brazil (5.1%); together they account for 86.9% of the total. In Costa Rica, this species accounts for 0.42% of all bird records in GBIF.

The scientific name Chlorophanes spiza combines the genus name Chlorophanes with the species epithet spiza. It is the only species of the genus Chlorophanes in the Warbla app catalog.

The catalog has GBIF record counts for 370 species of the family Thraupidae. This species ranks 13th among them; the family’s most-recorded species is Thraupis episcopus. Its record count is 5.4 times the family average (51,963). The family Thraupidae belongs to the order Passeriformes, which has 6,193 species in the Warbla app catalog.

More birds in the family Thraupidae

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