- Procnias averano
Identification
27-28cm
Male
- White to greyish-white body
- Black wings
- Brown head
- Un-feathered, black mossy wattles like a beard
- Dark eyes
- Broad, black, hooked tipped bill
- Grey-black legs
Female
- Olive green upperparts
- Dusky head
- Yellow underparts streaked green
- Yellow vent
Distribution
Northern South America: found in Trinidad, Colombia, Venezuela, Guyana, Brazil
Taxonomy
Subspecies
There are 2 subspecies[1]:
- P. a. averano - north east Brazil.
- P. a. carnobarba - Venezuela, Trinidad, extreme northeastern Colombia, western Guyana and far northern Brazil.
Habitat
Low-midlevel rain forest
Behaviour
Diet
The diet includes a wide variety of fruits and berries.
Breeding
The female lays and incubates the single brown-mottled, light tan egg into a flimsy nest of twigs which is placed in a tree.
Vocalisation
Males hold territory which they advertise with one of the loudest of any birdcalls. There are essentially two calls -the loudest is a sudden explosive 'BOK'.
The second call is a series of almost musical bell-like notes which sound like a demonic blacksmith knocking the hell out of his anvil. Hence it's common name of "Anvil Bird"
Recording copyright NJLarsen at Asa Wright in Trinidad.
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/
- Avibase
- Wikipedia
- Answers.com
- BF Member observations
- Handbook of the Birds of the World Alive (retrieved February 2015)
Recommended Citation
- BirdForum Opus contributors. (2024) Bearded Bellbird. In: BirdForum, the forum for wild birds and birding. Retrieved 26 April 2024 from https://www.birdforum.net/opus/Bearded_Bellbird
External Links
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