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mystery Mexican This beautiful bird is very popular among poultry

Red-legged honeycreepers

Cyanerpes
cyaneus

Linnaeus, 1766 (protonym

Certhia cyanea

) honeycreeper also known as blue, photographed in the way of Felipe Carrillo Puerto in Yucatan, Mexico (Central America).

Image :. Dave Rintoul, 2010 (with permission) [velociraptorize] Canon EOS 5D

Question:

Mexican This beautiful bird of the mystery of a common name with another group of birds that are remote. Can you identify this bird species and the unrelated group that share his name? Can you identify the families of two taxonomic groups of birds?

answer:

is an adult male red-legged honeycreepers, Red-legged honeycreepers are highly
dimorphic, males have a dramatic blue plumage with a glossy black band, back and wings, a wing spot of light blue and turquoise cap. The long bill is black and the little feet are bright red. Females and immatures are pale gray-green with stripes on the chest. These birds are very social and are often in small groups.

These birds are common in nature and are popular among poultry questions, but I have been kept and raised in the United States.
honeycreepers The truth is only distantly related to the Hawaiian honeycreepers (See an example), which are small passerine birds that are endemic to the Hawaiian Islands. Research published recently shows that the closest relative of Hawaiian honeycreepers "is the common ancestor of Eurasia Finch Carpodacus