- Carpodectes antoniae
Identification
19·5–21 cm (7¾-8¼ in)
Male
- Grey upperparts
- Bluish-grey crown
- Bright yellow bill with black line along culmen
Female
- Ashy-grey, darker on forehead and crown
- Blackish wings and tail, with wing-coverts and secondaries broadly edged white
- Pale grey throat, breast and belly becoming paler in vent
- White eye-ring
- Black bill with yellow base
Similar species
Male Snowy Cotinga differs in having blue-grey bill, Black-tipped Cotinga has black bill; both should not overlap in range.
Distribution
Pacific lowlands of southern Costa Rica and western Panama. Most of the Costa Rican population is found in the Osa Peninsula
Taxonomy
Habitat
Moist lowland forests, mangroves and moist shrubland. They especially prefer habitat where mangrove and lowland rainforest is contiguous, without intervening pastures.
Behaviour
Diet
Their diet consists almost entirely of fruit, including mistletoe.
Breeding
Apparently no nests have been seen, but feathered young have been observed being fed in the fork of a tree at about 10 m height.
Their nesting behaviour is likely to be similar to Snowy Cotinga, who construct a shallow platform from tendrils and lichen placed in the fork of a tree
References
- Clements, J. F., T. S. Schulenberg, M. J. Iliff, S. M. Billerman, T. A. Fredericks, B. L. Sullivan, and C. L. Wood. 2019. The eBird/Clements Checklist of Birds of the World: v2019. Downloaded from http://www.birds.cornell.edu/clementschecklist/download/
- BirdLife International
- Handbook of the Birds of the World Alive (retrieved December 2014)
- Lebbin, D. J., C. Pott, K. Leavelle, E. Jones, A. Gallo, and L. Powell (2020). Yellow-billed Cotinga (Carpodectes antoniae), version 1.0. In Birds of the World (T. S. Schulenberg, Editor). Cornell Lab of Ornithology, Ithaca, NY, USA. https://doi.org/10.2173/bow.yebcot1.01
Recommended Citation
- BirdForum Opus contributors. (2025) Yellow-billed Cotinga. In: BirdForum, the forum for wild birds and birding. Retrieved 7 May 2025 from https://www.birdforum.net/opus/Yellow-billed_Cotinga
