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Male
Photo by alexandre vinot
Risquetout in French Guiana, December 2006

Pachyramphus surinamus

[edit] Identification

13.2 - 13.8cm.

[edit] Male

• Glossy black above with a slight bluish sheen
• Crown sometimes scaly-looking
• Pure white underparts
• Dark iris
• Blackish bill
• Dark legs

[edit] Female

• Blackish crown with broadly dark chestnut-brown tipped feathers
• Pale line above lores
• Pale grey nape and upper back
• White lower back to rump
• Blackish wings with broad cinnamon-rufous edging
• Blackish tail
• White throat and underparts

[edit] Distribution

South America: found in Suriname, French Guiana and lower Amazonian Brazil. One record from Venezuela.
Poorly known, obviously rare and local.

[edit] Taxonomy

This is a monotypic species.

[edit] Habitat

Found in high canopy and subcanopy of tall humid forest and forest borders. Also in adjacent clearings and savanna forest.
Occurs from sea-level up to 300m.

[edit] Behaviour

Feeds on insects, takes also some fruit.
Usually seen in pairs moving through thick foliage in high canopy.
Breeding season from July to October in Brazil. The nest is a bulky globular structure with a side entrance and made of dead leaves, fibres and moss. It's suspended from a drooping branch 25 to 30m above the ground up in a tree, usually near a wasp or bee nest.
No movements known.

[edit] References

1. Clements, JF. 2011. The Clements Checklist of Birds of the World. 6th ed., with updates to August 2011. Ithaca: Cornell Univ. Press. ISBN 978-0801445019. Spreadsheet available at http://www.birds.cornell.edu/clementschecklist/downloadable-clements-checklist
2. Del Hoyo, J, A Elliot, and D Christie, eds. 2004. Handbook of the Birds of the World. Volume 9: Cotingas to Pipits and Wagtails. Barcelona: Lynx Edicions. ISBN 978-8487334696

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