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Guianan Red-Cotinga (Phoenicircus carnifex)
[order] Passeriformes | [family] Cotingidae | [latin] Phoenicircus carnifex | [UK] Guianan Red-Cotinga | [FR] Cotinga ouette | [DE] Blutkotinga | [ES] Cotinga Rojo Guayanés | [IT] Cotinga rossa della Guiana | [NL] Rode Cotinga | [SU]
Characteristics
The male has a brilliant scarlet crown, breast, rump, and tail. The sides of the head, throat, back, and wings are dark brown. The female of the species are duller, with olive brown wings and backs and pale rosy underparts.
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The Guianan Red-Cotinga inhabits eastern Venezuela, the Guianas and lower Amazonian Brazil. P. carnifex is rare and local in Suriname. Aside from Brownsberg and vicinity, it has been
reported only from the Kayser Mountains in southern Suriname. Its natural habitat is subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests. Red-cotingas appear to be completely fiugivorous, with recorded food items from the families Palmae (Euterpe), Moraceae (Ficus), and Passifloraceae. Feeding is usually solitary, although the resident males sometimes feed together. Red-cotingas are never seen accompanying the mixed species flocks that feed on fruit in the forest canopy. This species has a large range, with an estimated global extent of occurrence of 1,400,000 km². The global population size has not been quantified, but the species is not believed to approach the thresholds for the population size criterion of the IUCN Red List (i.e., less than 10,000 mature individuals in conjunction with appropriate decline rates and subpopulation qualifiers), even though the species is described as 'uncommon' in at least parts of its range (Stotz et al. 1996). Global population trends have not been quantified, but the species is not believed to approach the thresholds for the population decline criterion of the IUCN Red List (i.e., declining more than 30% in ten years or three generations). For these reasons, the species is evaluated as Least Concern. Sedentary throughout range. article number 1 Title
NOTES ON THE BEHAVIOR AND ECOLOGY OF THE RED-COTINGAS (COTINGIDAE: PHOENICIRCUS)
Author(s): PEPPER W. TRAIL AND PAUL DONAHUE
Abstract: The two specieso f red-cotingas,P hoenicircus, are little-known birds with a patchy distribution in the rain forests of northern and central South America. We observed the foraging, displays, and voca..[more]..
Source: Wilson Bull., 103(4), 199 1, pp. 539-551
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