Adult male Green Honeycreeper

Sightings
This beautiful adult male Green Honeycreeper was a regular visitor to the feeding station at the Asa Wright Centre in Trinidad. I prefer not to photograph birds on feeders and was lucky enough to find it perched on a branch above the feeders.

Species
Green Honeycreeper Chlorophanes spiza is found in the tropics from southern Mexico south to Brazil, and on Trinidad. It is the only member of the genus Chlorophanes and is a forest canopy species. There are seven subspecies of which C. s. spiza is found in Trinidad.

Status and Distribution
It is a species of least concern with an unknown but probably decreasing population in a large range of over sixteen million square kilometres. It is a common Trinidad resident in wooodlands and estates at all elevations but absent on Tobago

References
Asa Wright Centre; BirdLife; Wikipedia; World Bird Names; Kenefick, M., Restall, R., and Hayes, F. (2015) Birds of Trinidad and Tobago, Bloomsbury Publishing, page 224.

Photograph
Photographed in the morning light at 1/2000th of a second, f5.6 and ISO 1250.