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Photo by Ciro Albano
Guaramiranga Brazil, May 2005

Pipra fasciicauda

[edit] Identification

The amount of red and yellow on the underparts varies with the sub-species

[edit] Distribution

Widespread throughout South America: found in Peru, Bolivia, Brazil, Paraguay, Argentina

[edit] Taxonomy

[edit] Subspecies^[1]

There are 5 subspecies

• P. f. calamae:

• West-central Brazil near upper Rio Madeira and extreme north-western Mato Grosso

• P. f. saturata:

• Eastern slope of Central Andes of Peru (San Martín and southern Loreto)

• P. f. purusiana:

• Tropical eastern Peru (south to Cusco) and adjacent western Amazonian Brazil

• P. f. fasciicauda:

• Tropical south-eastern Peru (Puno) and north-eastern Bolivia

• P. f. scarlatina:

• Northern Bolivia to south-eastern Brazil, eastern Paraguay and north-eastern Argentina

[edit] Habitat

Gallery forest and swamps.

[edit] Behaviour

[edit] References

1. Clements, JF. 2010. The Clements Checklist of Birds of the World. 6th ed., with updates to December 2010. Ithaca: Cornell Univ. Press. ISBN 978-0801445019. Spreadsheet available at http://www.birds.cornell.edu/clementschecklist/Clements%206.5.xls/view
2. Arthur Grosset

• List of references

[edit] External Links

• Arthur Grosset's Birds