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The club-winged manakin (Machaeropterus deliciosus) is a small passerine bird which is a resident breeding species in the cloud forest on the western slopes of the Andes Mountains of Colombia and northwestern Ecuador.
Many manakin species have spectacular lekking courtship rituals, which are especially elaborate in the genera Pipra and Chiroxiphia. The rituals are characterized by a unique, species-specific pattern of vocalizations and movements such as jumping, bowing, wing vibration, wing snapping, and acrobatic flight. [6]
Club-winged manakin: Colombia and northwestern Ecuador. Machaeropterus regulus: Kinglet manakin: Atlantic Forest of south eastern Brazil Machaeropterus striolatus (split from M. regulus) Striolated manakin: Colombia, east Ecuador, east Peru and west Amazonian Brazil,Venezuela and west Guyana Machaeropterus eckelberryi: Painted manakin: north ...
Club-winged manakin; F. Fiery-capped manakin; K. Kinglet manakin; P. Painted manakin; S. Striolated manakin This page was last edited on 31 March 2013, at 11:45 ...
Chestnut-winged cinclodes; Chiguanco thrush; Chusquea tapaculo; Cinereous harrier; Cinnamon screech owl; Cinnamon-breasted tody-tyrant; Cloud-forest pygmy owl; Club-winged manakin; Common ground dove; Coopmans's elaenia; Coppery-chested jacamar; Crescent-faced antpitta; Crimson-rumped toucanet; Curve-billed tinamou
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Examples are the decorative feathers of the male great argus, the dances of the male red-capped manakin, and the flight patterns of the male golden-winged manakin. The wing structure of the male club-winged manakin demonstrates "decadence" as the wing is modulated for singing and less well adapted for flight. In all these examples female mate ...
Hanson interviews Kimberly Bostwick, an ornithologist and curator at Cornell University Museum of Vertebrates, who discusses her research in the club-winged manakin, a bird whose feathers enable it to make sounds with its wings. [39]