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By shaking its wings 100 times a second, the club-winged manakin can produce around 1,400 single sounds during that time. [5] In order to withstand the repeated beating of its wings together, the club-winged manakin has evolved solid wing bones (by comparison, the bones of most birds are hollow, making flight easier).
Wing feathers of a male club-winged manakin, with the modifications noted by P. L. Sclater in 1860 [4] and discussed by Charles Darwin in 1871. [5] The bird produces sound with its wings. Bird song is best developed in the order Passeriformes .
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 ...
Golden-winged laughingthrush; Golden-winged manakin; Golden-winged parakeet; Golden-winged sparrow; Golden-winged sunbird; Golden-winged tody-flycatcher; Golden-winged warbler; Goldenface; Goldie's bird-of-paradise; Goldie's lorikeet; Goldman's warbler; Goliath coucal; Goliath heron; Goliath imperial pigeon; Gorgeous bushshrike; Gorgeous ...
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 ...
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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 ...