- Cephalopterus ornatus
Identification
Male 48–51 cm; female 41–43 cm
Large, all-black cotinga with heavy bill, pale eye, and crest.
Distribution
South America: found from southern Venezuela to Guyana, northern Bolivia and Amazonian Brazil
Taxonomy
This is a monotypic species[1].
Habitat
Photo by Stanley Jones
Podocarpus National Park, Zamora-Chinchipe Province, Ecuador, November 2014
In Peru, uncommon in humid montane forest on east slope of Andes, 600-1650m.
Also locally in Amazonia, where apparently confined to floodplains of large rivers and forested river islands.
Behaviour
Diet
The diet includes berries, palm fruits nuts and large insects. They will also eat lizards occasionally.
Breeding
They construct a platform nest from loose twigs. The single egg is beige with brownish spotting and stippling.
Gallery
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Immature male
Photo by Peter R. Bono
along Manu Road, below Cock-of-the-Rock Lodge (1050m), Peru, August 2008
References
- Clements, J. F., T. S. Schulenberg, M. J. Iliff, D. Roberson, T. A. Fredericks, B. L. Sullivan, and C. L. Wood. 2014. The eBird/Clements checklist of birds of the world: Version 6.9., with updates to August 2014. Downloaded from http://www.birds.cornell.edu/clementschecklist/download/
- Handbook of the Birds of the World Alive (retrieved April 2015)
- Answers.com
Recommended Citation
- BirdForum Opus contributors. (2025) Amazonian Umbrellabird. In: BirdForum, the forum for wild birds and birding. Retrieved 28 April 2025 from https://www.birdforum.net/opus/Amazonian_Umbrellabird
External Links
GSearch checked for 2020 platform.
