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Male
Photo by Megan Perkins
La Selva, Costa Rica, July 2010

Celeus castaneus

[edit] Identification

• Rich chestnut upper and underparts
• V-shaped black marks
• Cream-brown crested head
• Greenish-ivory bill

Male

• Broad red moustachial patch
• Red ear patch and lores

[edit] Distribution

Female
Photo by rdavis
Bladen Nature Reserve, Belize, March 2010

Central America: found in Gulf-Caribbean slope of southern Mexico (southern Veracruz), Belize, El Salvador, Honduras, Nicaragua, Costa Rica and western Panama.

[edit] Taxonomy

This is a monotypic species^[1].

[edit] Habitat

Tropical evergreen rainforest and edges of secondary growth rainforest.

[edit] Behaviour

[edit] References

1. Clements, JF. 2009. The Clements Checklist of Birds of the World. 6th ed., with updates to December 2009. Ithaca: Cornell Univ. Press. ISBN 978-0801445019.
2. Avibase
3. Wikipedia
4. BF Member observations

• List of references

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