Yellow-headed Manakin - BirdForum Opus

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Dapa, Valle Del Cauca, Colombia, March 2019

Chloropipo flavicapilla

Xenopipo flavicapilla

Identification

12–13 cm (4¾-5 in)
Male

• Golden-yellow crown and nape
• Bright olive upperparts
• Paler yellow face, throat breast and underparts

Distribution

South America: found in Colombia and Ecuador.

Taxonomy

This is a monotypic species^[1].

Yellow-headed Manakin was formerly placed in genus Chloropipo¹.

Habitat

Highland forest and second growth.

Behaviour

Mostly found in undergrowth.

Diet

Their diet consists mostly of fruit, but their isn't much information available.

References

1. SACC as read in September 2008
2. Clements, J. F., T. S. Schulenberg, M. J. Iliff, D. Roberson, T. A. Fredericks, B. L. Sullivan, and C. L. Wood. 2018. The eBird/Clements checklist of birds of the world: v2018. Downloaded from http://www.birds.cornell.edu/clementschecklist/download/
3. Gill, F and D Donsker (Eds). 2016. IOC World Bird Names (version 6.3). Available at http://www.worldbirdnames.org/.
4. Handbook of the Birds of the World Alive (retrieved March 2019)

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