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- Ramphocelus carbo
Photo credit: Peter R. Bono
Date: 2008-08-02
Location: along Manu Road, Cock-of-the-Rock Lodge, (approx. 1400m), Peru
Identification
18cm. Broad lower mandible silvery white. Male looks mostly crimson black with contrasting white bill; deep velvety black above slightly glossed maroon; throat and upper breast dark crimson becoming deep black on lower underparts. Or blackish maroon above, brighter crimson below (venezuelensis). Female: dull reddish brown above; brighter and redder on rump; underparts maroon brown; bill blackish.
Distribution
Colombia, Venezuela, Paraguay, central Brazil, Suriname and on Trinidad.
Taxonomy
Habitat
Light woodland and cultivated areas.
Behaviour
It builds a bulky, cup shaped nest in a bush and 2 green-blue eggs blotched with black-brown are laid. They are incubated by the female for 11-12 days, and the chicks fledge after another 11-12 days.
The diet includes mainly fruit, but insects are also taken.
