A commonly repeated, yet false, belief about the various honeycreeper species is that some of them lay black eggs.[1] This idea was first made known in the scientific community with the 1899 publication of Nehrkorn's
egg catalog; Nehrkorn's claim was cited in ornithological literature
for many years without verification, but by the 1940s it was established
that none of the members of Cyanerpes lay such eggs.
The typical honeycreeper is a small bird in the tanager family. They are found in the tropical New World from Mexico south to Brazil.
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