- Carpodectes antoniae
Identification
19·5–21 cm
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.
References
- Clements, J. F., T. S. Schulenberg, M. J. Iliff, D. Roberson, T. A. Fredericks, B. L. Sullivan, and C. L. Wood. 2014. The eBird/Clements checklist of birds of the world: Version 6.9., with updates to August 2014. Downloaded from http://www.birds.cornell.edu/clementschecklist/download/
- BirdLife International
- Handbook of the Birds of the World Alive (retrieved December 2014)
Recommended Citation
- BirdForum Opus contributors. (2021) Yellow-billed Cotinga. In: BirdForum, the forum for wild birds and birding. Retrieved 14 May 2021 from https://www.birdforum.net/wiki/Yellow-billed_Cotinga
