blue dacnis, turquoise honeycreeper (Dacnis cayana) Description
Dacnis coerebicolor = Dacnis cayana coerebicolor, Blue Dacnis ssp
Date 1886
Source Catalogue of the birds in the British Museum. Volume 11
Author Joseph Smit (1836–1929) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Smit
Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:DacnisCoerebicolorSmit.jpg
The blue dacnis or turquoise honeycreeper (Dacnis cayana) is a small passerine bird. This member of the tanager family is found from Nicaragua to Panama, on Trinidad, and in South America south to Bolivia and northern Argentina. It is widespread and often common, especially in parts of its South American range. The purplish honeycreeper (Chlorophanes purpurascens), a bird from Venezuela known only from the type specimen, is considered to be an intergeneric hybrid between the green honeycreeper and either the red-legged honeycreeper or the blue dacnis. Order: Passeriformes, Family: Thraupidae, Genus: Dacnis, Species: Dacnis cayana (Linnaeus, 1766), Synonyms: Dacnis coerebicolor.