Scientific name:
Cyanerpes

Natural spread:
means -, South America

one could confuse the turquoise-birds with Kolibris, if they suck nectar with its profoundly split one and brush-shaped frayed tongue. The long and slim, downward bent beak dives deeply into the calyx on that occasion in. If one observes it however more exactly, one determines that they approach the blooms in quite different manner. they don't have the possibility to approach the plant in the Schwirrflug but don't climb over creepers and branches at the bloom along. How most nektarivoren nourish it besides from the vital nectar for itself birds (nectar-birds) also from juicy fruits and insects.

Shape If the sociable turquoise-birds wander through the bloom-sea in big swarms, everyone of them like a small gem works. Above all in the incubation, the males beam in its blue-green, dark-blue and black plumage, usually with shining-yellow befiederten legs. They only set aside this dress if the boys became fully-fledged. Then, green-sounds determine the main-color de of plumage like with the female. The turquoise-birds are among the few tropical sparrow-birds, who know a plumage-change at all, with it.

Over the tropical regions, the actual turquoise-bird (Cyanerpes cyaneus) penetrates as single type; until 14,5 cm of length; until 2 cm of beak-length, as far as to Mexico before. We also know each other more about the brood-biology of this very similar types from it.

Brood The female builds a simple bowl-nest in a tree or shrubs. Also the task, that to incubate both eggs, befits it alone. Only when the boys slipped, the male takes part in the feeding as well until the boys finally left the nest after 14 days.