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Chloropipo flavicapilla

Xenopipo flavicapilla

Photo by COLOMBIA Birding
Location: C Andes, Colombia

Distribution

Colombia and Ecuador.

Taxonomy

This is a monotypic species².
Placed in genus Xenopipo by Gill and Donsker.

Yellow-headed Manakin was formerly placed in genus Chloropipo¹.

Habitat

Highland forest and second growth.

Behaviour

Mostly found in undergrowth.

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. 2015. The eBird/Clements checklist of birds of the world: v2015, with updates to August 2015. Downloaded from http://www.birds.cornell.edu/clementschecklist/download/
3. Gill, F and D Donsker (Eds). 2015. IOC World Bird Names (version 5.3). Available at http://www.worldbirdnames.org/.

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