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title: "Red-legged Honeycreeper"
description: "Cyanerpes cyaneus — Uccelli. The red-legged honeycreeper (Cyanerpes cyaneus) is a small songbird in the family Thraupidae, the tanagers and allies."
canonical: https://animalchecklist.com/it/animal/red-legged-honeycreeper
last_updated: 2026-09-20
---

# Red-legged Honeycreeper

> Cyanerpes cyaneus — Uccelli. The red-legged honeycreeper (Cyanerpes cyaneus) is a small songbird in the family Thraupidae, the tanagers and allies.

- Scientific name: *Cyanerpes cyaneus*
- Category: `birds` (Uccelli)
- Habitats: unknown
- iNaturalist observations: 8841
- Wikidata: [Q1071693](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1071693)
- iNaturalist taxon: [10262](https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/10262)

## Names

- en: Red-legged Honeycreeper
- de: Türkisnaschvogel
- es: Mielero Patas Rojas
- fr: Guit-guit saï
- nl: Blauwe suikervogel
- pt: Saíra-beija-flor
- pl: Błękitniczek czerwononogi

## Countries with the most observations

CR (3218), MX (1603), PA (1544), BR (450), BZ (295), CO (231), HN (202), GT (169), SV (98), CU (89), NI (79), US (62)

## Summary

The red-legged honeycreeper (Cyanerpes cyaneus) is a small songbird in the family Thraupidae, the tanagers and allies. It is regularly found in Mexico, every Central American country, Trinidad and Tobago, and every mainland South American country except Argentina, Chile, Paraguay, and Uruguay. It has also occurred as a vagrant in the United States, Argentina, and some southern Caribbean islands.

Text: Wikipedia (en), CC BY-SA 4.0 — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red-legged_honeycreeper

## Photo

![Red-legged Honeycreeper](https://animalchecklist.com/img/animals/red-legged-honeycreeper/medium.jpg)

Photo: Adam Jackson · CC0 · inaturalist — https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/200510816

## Machine access

`GET https://animalchecklist.com/api/v1/animals/red-legged-honeycreeper?lang=it` — see [openapi.json](https://animalchecklist.com/openapi.json).