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Leucopternis princeps
Photo by Mark Harper
Location: Buenaventura, Ecuador

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.


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