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White Bellbird (Procnias albus)
[order] Passeriformes | [family] Cotingidae | [latin] Procnias albus | [UK] White Bellbird | [FR] Araponga blanc | [DE] Einlappenkotinga | [ES] Campanero Blanco | [IT] Campanaro bianco | [NL] Witte Klokvogel | [SU] Rotshaan
Characteristics
The male White Bellbird is one of the few land birds with an entirely white plumage. The wattle growing from the base of the upper mandible hangs down and is extensible. The female is olive-green above, whitish-yellow with darker streaks below, and lacks the wattle.
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It is found in Brazil, French Guiana, Guyana, Suriname, Trinidad and Tobago, and Venezuela. Its natural habitat is subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests. Adult males of the White Bellbird are sedentary and advertise themselves by loud calls from the same perches in the forest throughout the year except for the molt period. The females, who alone tend the nest, visit the males on their display perches to mate, which is the only association between the sexes. The advertising and courtship behavior consists of calls from high exposed perches above the canopy and also from beneath the canopy. Having attracted a female, the Bellbird courts and mates with her at his perch beneath the canopy.
The nest is loose cup made out of twigs. No further data. This species is entirely frugivorous, even the nestlings are fed only fruit. This species has a large range, with an estimated global extent of occurrence of 510,000 kmē. 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 with some latitudinal movement, probably related to the abundance of fruit. article number 1 Title
NOTES ON THE BEHAVIOR OF THE WHITE BELLBIRD
Author(s): BARBARA K. Snow
Abstract: Little has been recorded of the White Bellbird (Procnias alba) in the field. In March 1960 I made brief observationso n a singlea dult male in the Kanaku Mountains of southern Guyana, but my descripti..[more]..
Source: The Auk 90: 743-751, 1973
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