The Story
This Green Honeycreeper (Chlorophanes spiza) was at Entreaguas Reserva Natural in Ibagué, Tolima, Colombia when I photographed it. The female builds the nest, a shallow cup of dead leaves and rootlets. It is mainly a bird of the canopy, though it comes lower at forest edges. It forages alone, in pairs and with mixed-species flocks. In a study in Trinidad, about two thirds of its foraging was for fruit, and half of that fruit was Miconia berries. Ibagué, the capital of Tolima, sits on the Central Andes between the Combeima Canyon and the Magdalena valley, near Nevado del Tolima.
I made this frame with a Pentax K-1 and the HD Pentax-D FA 150-450mm f/4.5-5.6, at 1/125 sec, f/5.6, ISO 800. IUCN lists the Green Honeycreeper as Least Concern, with a decreasing population.
©2019 Adam Rainoff Photographer
The bird
The Green Honeycreeper (Chlorophanes spiza) belongs to the family Thraupidae (Tanagers and Allies) in the eBird/Clements taxonomy.
Source: eBird.org (opens in a new tab)
Conservation
Least Concern on the IUCN Red List (assessment published 2021), with the population trend listed as decreasing. Source: IUCN Red List