North Amazon, bird ID please (1 Viewer)

[Aracari]

I photographed this in a rather open area, near dry land and igapó forest. There was a tree and some bushes giving some small fruits with a few birds feeding on it, like golden-headed manakin. This bird was larger, at around 15cm. At first I thought of a female yellow-crested manakin, but the chin looks too white, although I remember the belly and chest being a bit orange (I guess)... or maybe a schiffornis or even tyrant-manakin?

It was in the Caurés River, a tributary of the Rio Negro.

Help me out please.

 

[Aracari]

No one?

 

[Peter Phillips]

No one?

Your on your own there! Its a lonely place sometimes............

 

[arthurgrosset]

It looks like a female Yellow-crested Manakin to me being fairly bright olive above and with dark grey cheeks. Is the female's throat not grey rather than white?

 

[Aracari]

It looks like a female Yellow-crested Manakin to me being fairly bright olive above and with dark grey cheeks. Is the female's throat not grey rather than white?

Thanks Arthur... yeah I guess it is a female yellow-crested manakin. It's just that in my book here (Tomas Sigrist) the female is depicted with a gray throat, very different than its sibling flame-crested manakin, in which case the female has the white throat.

 

[Rasmus Boegh]

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