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Male
Photo by Anselmo d Affonseca
Manaus, Brazil, August 2016
Phoenicircus carnifex

Identification

Male 22 cm (8½ in), Female 24 cm (9½ in)
Male

  • Red crown, rump, upper tail and belly

Similar Species

Black-necked Red-Cotinga

Distribution

Female
Photo by Anselmo d Affonseca
Amazonas, Brazil, Feb.,2014

South America: found from extreme southern Venezuela, to the Guianas, and lower Amazonian Brazil.

Taxonomy

This is a monotypic species[1].

Habitat

They can be found in humid forests at heights around 600 m.

Behaviour

Diet

They are thought to be almost exclusively frugivorous.

References

  1. Clements, J. F., T. S. Schulenberg, M. J. Iliff, D. Roberson, T. A. Fredericks, B. L. Sullivan, and C. L. Wood. 2016. The eBird/Clements checklist of birds of the world: v2016, with updates to August 2016. Downloaded from http://www.birds.cornell.edu/clementschecklist/download/
  2. Handbook of the Birds of the World Alive (retrieved February 2016)

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