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The individual pictured is probably a female, despite the orange throat
Photo by steveblain
Loreto Road, Ecuador, January 2006
Pipreola chlorolepidota

Identification

Distribution

South America. Found in the Andean foothills of south-eastern Colombia to Ecuador and central Peru (Pasco).

Taxonomy

This is a monotypic species[1].

Habitat

Sub-tropical forest.

Behaviour

  1. Clements, J. F., T. S. Schulenberg, M. J. Iliff, B.L. Sullivan, C. L. Wood, and D. Roberson. 2013. The eBird/Clements checklist of birds of the world: Version 6.8., with updates to August 2013. Downloaded from http://www.birds.cornell.edu/clementschecklist/download/

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