Red-legged Honeycreeper / Blauwe Suikervogel, Roodpoot

Red-legged Honeycreeper (Cyanerpes cyaneus)

Pictures (click on them to enlarge)
© Dennis Binda	© Dennis Binda	© Carla Out
© Foek Chin Joe	© Jan Hein Ribot	© Francita Rijhiner
© Francita Rijhiner	© Carla Out	young male © Jan Hein Ribot
young male © Jan Hein Ribot	© Aernout Nieuwkerk	© Klaas de Jong
French Guiana © Michel Giraud-Audine

Red-legged Honeycreeper: They often come in groups to flowering trees with other nectar eating birds like purple honeycreepers and blue dacnis, without rest on the search for food.
The first two pictures were made by Dennis Binda in August 2008 on the Brownsberg near a fruiting Clusia grandiflora, a strangler liana. The third picture was made by Carla Out, a male Red-legged Honeycreeper also eating at a fruit of Clusia grandiflora at the Brownsberg but in September 2006. The female was photographed by Foek Chin Joe at Matta in August 2006. Follow two pictures by Francita Rijhiner made in September 2011 in Anaula and first a photo made by J.H. Ribot in the bird-cage of mr. Luchmun, Paramaribo 2001. One of a male with its very red legs was made by Carla Out in the Brownsberg nature park in September 2006. Then follow two of a young male, not yet in full color. The first of these made in the bird-cage of mr. Luchmun, Paramaribo 2001, the black and white picture at Hannoversavanne in Suriname 1980, both by Ribot. Then a picture of a female, made by Pascal Dubois in French Guyane (2002) and a male from the same country seen by Michel Giraud-Audine near wayabo in March 2014.
Dominiek Plouvier filmed a female out of a group of 10 exx that showed up in Commewijne at the end of June.

Video (click the link or the 'play'-button to see)
Video recording of a Red-legged Honeycreeper © ;

Distribution

Each small square indicates the observation of at least one (group) of these birds, the medium ones at least four observations on different days and the largest ones ten or more. The color of each square indicates: blue for coastal area, yellow for savanna and red for rainforest.
Not all places in Suriname have been equally often visited by birders, so the distribution of the squares gives an indication of the whereabouts of the birds, but also of the birders. Some places deep in the south have no reported bird observations, by experienced birders, within 60 kilometer.

Abundance in different areas
coastal zone (blue dots on the map) :
northern savannas (yellow dots (in the north)) :
rainforest under 400 m (red dots) :
rainforest above 400 m (red dots) :
Sipaliwini savanna (yellow dots (in the south)) :
A blank is shown if not convincingly reported in the zone. Data interpreted by Arie Spaans, Otte Ottema and Jan Hein Ribot.

Names
Scientific name:	Cyanerpes cyaneus
Order:	Passeriformes
Family:	Thraupidae, 56 in Suriname
Dutch:	Blauwe Suikervogel, Roodpoot
English:	Red-legged Honeycreeper
Sranan ('Surinamese'):	Rood-poot honingzuiger
Guyana:	Grampo
Papiamento:
Spanish (Venezuela):	Tucuso de montaña
Portugese (Brazil):	Saíl;-de-pernas-vermelhas
Arowak:
Carib:
French:	Guit-guit saï

Observations through the year	Observations of breeding through the year

The 408 reported observations of this bird in Suriname, mainly for the last 50 years up to 2018, have been grouped by month. More birds on one day are counted as one observation. Of course, if the graph should depict the total number of birds seen, the differences between the months could be much more pronounced.	The 1 reported breeding observations of this bird in Suriname. Most observations are about nest with eggs, some about fledglings, or feeding at a nest or the building of a nest. Of the about 5000 nests and eggs found for all species together, about 1/3 comes from the egg collection of Penard between 1896 and 1905. For some reason most collecting then was done in the first half of each year, so the shown distribution does not necessarily reflect the actual breeding preferences. The main dry season in Suriname is reckoned to be from half August to the end of November, the main wet season from half April to half August, but the the timing of begin and end does vary from year to year. Around March a second dry season often occurs.

Observations through the year

Observations of breeding through the year

The 408 reported observations of this bird in Suriname, mainly for the last 50 years up to 2018, have been grouped by month. More birds on one day are counted as one observation. Of course, if the graph should depict the total number of birds seen, the differences between the months could be much more pronounced.

The 1 reported breeding observations of this bird in Suriname. Most observations are about nest with eggs, some about fledglings, or feeding at a nest or the building of a nest.

Of the about 5000 nests and eggs found for all species together, about 1/3 comes from the egg collection of Penard between 1896 and 1905. For some reason most collecting then was done in the first half of each year, so the shown distribution does not necessarily reflect the actual breeding preferences.
The main dry season in Suriname is reckoned to be from half August to the end of November, the main wet season from half April to half August, but the the timing of begin and end does vary from year to year. Around March a second dry season often occurs.

Last update: September 2024 by Jan Hein Ribot. Please mail your comments, photos to: jhribot ( residing at ) gmail (point!) com.
observations can be uploaded to suriname.observation.org or ebird.org ).