2. Birds - Aves

Birds - Central America

Very few groups of animals can rival birds for the color palette they display. I'm lobbying for a new color called: Honeycreeper Green. And the bats...? They're just too cool not to include.
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Shining Honeycreeper (<i>Cyanerpes lucidus</i>) Gamboa, Panama
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Shining Honeycreeper (Cyanerpes lucidus) Gamboa, Panama

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