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Cotingas
The cotingas are a large family of passerine bird species found in Central America and tropical South America.
Diet / Feeding ...
Cotinga
Related Category: Vertebrate Zoology
(ktng´g), any of the New World tropical birds of the family Cotingidae.
Pompadour Cotinga
Male at Miami MetroZoo, Florida, USA
Conservation status
Least Concern (IUCN 3.1) ...
Spangled Cotinga (Cotinga cayana)
The Spangled Cotinga is distributed throughout the Amazon and Orinoco basins and into the Guianas. It is found in humid forest and woodland where it is usually seen in the canopy or at the edges.
Spangled Cotinga Cotinga cayana
Described by: Linnaeus (1766)
Alternate common name(s): None known by website authors
Old scientific name(s): None known by website authors ...
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Black-necked Red Cotinga
Phoenicircus nigricollis
[South America]
This very impressive lekking cotinga, robed in bright crimson and black, was virtually unknown until ~30 years ago.
Family Cotingidae (cotingas, becards, and relatives)
Family Pipridae (manakins)
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broadbills, woodcreepers, ovenbirds, antbirds, tapaculos, cotingas, manakins, tyrant flycatchers, sharpbill, plantcutters, pittas, New Zealand wrens, asities, lyrebirds, scrub-birds, larks, swallows & martins, wagtails & pipits, ...
Turquoise cotinga (Cotinga ridgwayi)
White-crowned pigeon (Patagioenas leucocephala)
Golden-winged warbler (Vermivora chrysoptera)
Common snipe (Gallinago gallinago)
White ibis (Eudocimus albus)
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COCK-OF-THE-ROCK, the familiar name of the birds of the genus Rupicola (subfamily Rupicolinae) of the Cotingas (allied to the Manakins, q.v.), found in the Amazon valley.
Birds seen included: Black Flowerpiercer, Band-tailed Pigeon, Great Thrush, Hooded Siskin, Plumbeus Sierra Finch, Scarlet-bellied Mountain Tanager, Superciliary Hemisphingus, Red-crested Cotinga, Brown-bellied Swallow, Black Vulture, Variable Hawk, ...
I coauthored a detailed paper titled "First nesting records of Worthen's Sparrow for Nuevo Leon, Mexico, with a habitat characterization of the nest site and notes on ecology, voice, additional recent sightings and leg coloration" in Cotinga 8:27-33.
 See also: Vulture, King vulture, Monkey, Baboon, Tapir
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