Bence Mate / Red-legged honeycreeper (Cyanerpes cyaneus) two males on barbed wire. Costa Rica.

Luiz Claudio Marigo / Purple honeycreeper {Cyanerpes caeruleus} Trinidad

Nigel Bean / Purple Honeycreeper male, Asa Wright Nature Centre, Trinidad.

Guy Edwardes / Pair of Red-legged honeycreepers (Cyanerpes cyaneus), Costa Rica.

Julian Hume / Flock of Ancestral cardueline finches arriving on Hawaiian Island around 4 million years ago. Eurasian rosefinches (Carpodacus sp) are the most likely ancestors of the Hawaiian honeycreepers.

David Tipling / Cane headdress of Tanagers (Thraupidae) and Honeycreepers (Cyanerpes) worn by the Jivaro of Northern Peru and eastern Ecuador.

David Tipling / (Green Honeycreeper (Chlorophanes spiza) male feeding on berries, La Selva, Costa Rica

Luiz Claudio Marigo / Green honeycreeper (Chlorophanes spiza) male perched on branch in the mountainous Atlantic Rainforest of Serra Bonita Natural Private Heritage Reserve (RPPN Serra Bonita) municipality of Camacan, Sout...

Luiz Claudio Marigo / Green Honeycreeper (Chlorophanes spiza) male perched in branch in mountainous Atlantic Rainforest of Serra Bonita Natural Private Heritage Reserve (RPPN Serra Bonita) municipality of Camacan, Souther...

Luiz Claudio Marigo / Green honeycreeper (Chlorophanes spiza) female perched on branch in mountainous Atlantic Rainforest of Serra Bonita Natural Private Heritage Reserve (RPPN Serra Bonita), municipality of Camacan, South...

Sue Flood / Red legged honeycreeper (Cyanerpes cyaneus) near Boca Tapada, Costa Rica. January 2011

Tim Laman / Purple Honeycreeper (Cyanerpes caeruleus) male perched, Asa Wright Nature Center, Trinidad.