Flame-crowned Manakin

About the Flame-crowned Manakin

The flame-crested manakin, or flame-crowned manakin, (Heterocercus linteatus) is a species of bird in the family Pipridae. It is found in Bolivia, Brazil, and Peru. The flame-crested manakin was originally described as Elaenia linteata, erroneously placing it in the New World flycatcher family.

The flame-crested manakin is monotypic. It shares genus Heterocercus with the orange-crested manakin (H. aurantiivertex) and the yellow-crested manakin (H. flavivertex). The three form a superspecies. The flame-crested manakin is about 14 cm (5.5 in) long and weighs 20 to 24 g (0.71 to 0.85 oz). The species is sexually dimorphic. Adult males have a mostly black head with an often hidden red stripe on the crown and a white throat. The throat feathers are long and silky. Their upperparts and flanks are dark olive. They have a sooty olive upper breast and a deep chestnut lower breast that becomes cinnamon-rufous on the belly. Adult females have no red on their crown. The head is mostly the same dark olive as their upperparts though their face is duskier and their throat gray. Their flanks are grayish olive and their underparts cinnamon-buff. Both... Wikipedia →