Manakin
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MANAKIN, from the Dutch word Manneken, applied to certain small birds, a name apparently introduced into English by G.
Manakin
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Manakin
Related Category: Vertebrate Zoology
(mn´kn), common name for stocky, tiny birds, most measuring less than 5 in. (12.5 cm) long, comprising 59 species in the family Pipridae.
Many manakin species have spectacular lekking courtship rituals, which are especially elaborate in the genus Pipra.
Blue Manakin
(Chiroxiphia caudata)
(aka Swallow-tailed Manakin)
The Blue Manakin is distributed in south-east Brazil and into adjacent regions of Paraguay and Argentina. It is found in Atlantic Rain Forest, secondary woodland and forest edges.
Green Manakin Chloropipo holochlora
Described by: Sclater, P. L. (1888)
Alternate common name(s): None known by website authors
Old scientific name(s): None known by website authors ...
MANAKINS
Order Passeriformes Family Pipridae
The Pipridae family contains the manakins which are found in the American tropics. They are not related to the similarly named birds, mannikins (derived from the Dutch for 'little man').
Wire-tailed manakins live in the rainforests of Central and South America. The males gather on display grounds to strut their stuff for the females. Each male has his own private dancing perch upon which he performs.
Scientific name: Pipra filicauda ...
MANAKINS.
Bill short, stout, straight, depressed, being much broader than high at the base, with the dorsal line arched, the ridge narrow, the sides sloping, the gap-line straightish or slightly arched, the notches rather large, ...
Araripe Manakin
Antilophia bokermanni
[Brazil]
This is yet another choice that represents a larger group: any manakin is an exciting little bird.
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On the way we had a Dwarf Tyrant-Manakin. Manikins are sometimes very colorful interesting birds. Not this one. The Dwarf Tyrant-Manakin is drab green with a light yellow belly. A troop of Titi Monkeys were relieving themselves from the canopy.
Tyranni (New World flycatchers, cotingas, and manakins)
Family Cotingidae (cotingas, becards, and relatives)
Family Pipridae (manakins) ...
 See also: Finch, Flycatcher, Tyrant, Swallow, Woodpecker
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