- Cotinga maculata
Identification
20 cm
Male:
- Bright, dark cobalt-blue upperparts
- Mottled black on back
- Bright purple throat extending to mid-belly, and dissected by blue breast-band
- Underparts including undertail-coverts blue
- Black wings (lesser and median coverts have broad blue edging)
- Black tail
Female:
- Upperjparts dusky brown with whitish scaling
- Underparts slightly paler and buffier with broad scaling (this gives a paler appearance)
- Indistinct, whitish eye-ring
- Dark iris
Distribution
South-eastern Brazil (southern Bahia and Minas Gerais to Rio de Janeiro)
Taxonomy
Monotypic[1]
Habitat
Atlantic rain forest
Behaviour
Diet
The diet includes seeds, berries and fruit, caterpillars and other insects.
Breedin
It builds a small platform of twigs as a nest (possibly also inside an arboreal termite nest).
References
- Clements, JF. 2008. The Clements Checklist of Birds of the World. 6th ed., with updates to December 2008. Ithaca: Cornell Univ. Press. ISBN 978-0801445019.
- BirdLife International
- BF Member observations
Recommended Citation
- BirdForum Opus contributors. (2024) Banded Cotinga. In: BirdForum, the forum for wild birds and birding. Retrieved 4 May 2024 from https://www.birdforum.net/opus/Banded_Cotinga
External Links
GSearch checked for 2020 platform.
