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==Identification== | ==Identification== | ||
61cm. Slate black head, upperparts, and chest, underparts and wing-linings white with fine black barring, black, short, square tail with complete median white band, brown iris, yellow cere and legs. Juveniles similar with white scaling on wing-coverts. | 61cm. Slate black head, upperparts, and chest, underparts and wing-linings white with fine black barring, black, short, square tail with complete median white band, brown iris, yellow cere and legs. Juveniles similar with white scaling on wing-coverts. | ||
Revision as of 21:26, 23 February 2009
- Leucopternis princeps
Identification
61cm. Slate black head, upperparts, and chest, underparts and wing-linings white with fine black barring, black, short, square tail with complete median white band, brown iris, yellow cere and legs. Juveniles similar with white scaling on wing-coverts.
Distribution
Found from Costa Rica and Panama south to Ecuador and Peru.
Taxonomy
Monotypic.
Habitat
Canopy and edges of mountain forests.
Behaviour
The diet includes snakes, frogs, large insects, crabs, occasionally mammals and birds.
