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[[Image:White-cheekedCotinga.jpg|thumb|550px|right|Photo by BirdsPeru]] | [[Image:White-cheekedCotinga.jpg|thumb|550px|right|Photo by BirdsPeru]] | ||
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==Identification== | ==Identification== | ||
| − | ==Distribution | + | 18 cm. Black crown, silver-white face and cheeks, grey-brown throat and upper breast, rest of underparts yellowish-buff, streaked black, except in mid-belly, upperparts striped buff and dusky, dusky wings and tail fringed yellow, red iris. Juvenile paler, with drab breast. |
| + | ==Distribution== | ||
| + | [[Peru]]. Its natural habitat is subtropical or tropical moist montanes. It is threatened | ||
| + | ==Taxonomy== | ||
| + | Monotypic. | ||
==Habitat== | ==Habitat== | ||
| + | Forests. | ||
==Behaviour== | ==Behaviour== | ||
| + | Its diet primarily includes two genera of mistletoe, for which it is the main seed-dispersal agent. | ||
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| + | Nests are built in March; eggs and young have been found in May. | ||
==External Links== | ==External Links== | ||
{{GSearch|Zaratornis+stresemanni}} | {{GSearch|Zaratornis+stresemanni}} | ||
Revision as of 14:18, 8 August 2008
- Zaratornis stresemanni
Identification
18 cm. Black crown, silver-white face and cheeks, grey-brown throat and upper breast, rest of underparts yellowish-buff, streaked black, except in mid-belly, upperparts striped buff and dusky, dusky wings and tail fringed yellow, red iris. Juvenile paler, with drab breast.
Distribution
Peru. Its natural habitat is subtropical or tropical moist montanes. It is threatened
Taxonomy
Monotypic.
Habitat
Forests.
Behaviour
Its diet primarily includes two genera of mistletoe, for which it is the main seed-dispersal agent.
Nests are built in March; eggs and young have been found in May.
