Habitat: This Honeycreeper species will favor canopy and humid forest border habitats in foothills and the lowlands. Distribution: This species has been reported from southeastern Mexico to northwestern Colombia. Natural History Notes: The Shining Honeycreeper likes to forage in small groups and high in trees. Its diet consists mostly of nectar, but also of berries and insects. Conservation status according to IUCN 2008 Red list: Least Concern (LC). It is a resident species. Characteristics: This species has a total length of 4.25 inches (measured from tip of bill to end of tail). This bird has a fairly long, slim and decurved black bill. The legs are yellow in the male and greenish in the female. The male is characterized by a bright purple-blue plumage with a paler coloration on the top and the sides of the head. The wings, the tail, the lores, the throat and the chest are all black. The female has a green plumage on the above with some blue-gray coloration on the head, the wings and the tail. The throat is beige bordered with a blue band, and the underparts are beige-white. We can also distinguish a large blue stripe on the breast and some green on the sides of the body.