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Red-legged Honeycreeper
Cyanerpes cyaneus · Family Thraupidae
Cyanerpes cyaneus
Family Thraupidae
- Order
- Passeriformes
- Family
- Thraupidae
- GBIF occurrence records
- 262,141
- Countries and territories with records
- 32
About this species
This species has 262,141 occurrence records from 32 countries and territories (GBIF, 21 October 2026). Most records come from Costa Rica (39.5%), Panama (16.6%), Belize (14.6%), Mexico (7.1%) and Guatemala (5.8%); together they account for 83.6% of the total. In Costa Rica, this species accounts for 0.4% of all bird records in GBIF.
The scientific name Cyanerpes cyaneus combines the genus name Cyanerpes with the species epithet cyaneus. The Warbla app catalog lists 4 species of the genus Cyanerpes; apart from this one, those with the most GBIF records are Cyanerpes caeruleus, Cyanerpes lucidus and Cyanerpes nitidus.
The catalog has GBIF record counts for 370 species of the family Thraupidae. This species ranks 15th among them; the family’s most-recorded species is Thraupis episcopus. Its record count is 5 times the family average (51,963). The family Thraupidae belongs to the order Passeriformes, which has 6,193 species in the Warbla app catalog.