A year or two ago a person identified that at least one of Walsrodes purple honeycreepers (Cyanerpes caeruleus) actually turned out to be a shining honeycreeper (Cyanerpes lucidus). The person was sure about it and also talked to experts who agreed.
The individual in my photo above has some characteristics of a shining honeycreeper (for example the length of the beak, and the lack of an obvious curved beak (which typical purple honeycreepers often have), but I can not be certain that this individual is a shining honeycreeper - as they are signed as purple honeycreepers (Cyanerpes caeruleus) and can be hard to tell apart.
