It's me again, with yet another batch from El Paujil (eastern Pasco, 400 masl)!
The undergrowth over there was hopping with manakins, though I never found a lek.
The two common species were White-crowned and Blue-crowned. Males were unmistakable, of course, but the females were usually quite recognizable as well, WC with the grayish head and red eyes and BC bright green above and quite yellow below (see photos 1 and 2 respectively, for reference).
Now, I never saw a male of another species, but I did see a bunch of manakins that looked different. I wonder if they're all green manakins, but since the species looks quite variable across its range, and I could find very few photos from Peru, which themselves are a bit different from the illustration in Birds of Peru, I turn once more to my favorite experts!
Many thanks in advance
T
P.S I tried to provide several angles for each bird, so the photos will be spread accross a couple comments, apologies for that.
Photos 3,4,5 are of the same bird
The undergrowth over there was hopping with manakins, though I never found a lek.
The two common species were White-crowned and Blue-crowned. Males were unmistakable, of course, but the females were usually quite recognizable as well, WC with the grayish head and red eyes and BC bright green above and quite yellow below (see photos 1 and 2 respectively, for reference).
Now, I never saw a male of another species, but I did see a bunch of manakins that looked different. I wonder if they're all green manakins, but since the species looks quite variable across its range, and I could find very few photos from Peru, which themselves are a bit different from the illustration in Birds of Peru, I turn once more to my favorite experts!
Many thanks in advance
T
P.S I tried to provide several angles for each bird, so the photos will be spread accross a couple comments, apologies for that.
Photos 3,4,5 are of the same bird
