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The blue-backed manakin (Chiroxiphia pareola) is a small passerine bird which breeds in tropical South America, its range extending from Colombia and Tobago to southeastern Brazil. It is found in deciduous forests but not evergreen rainforests. It is a small, plump bird about 13 centimetres (5 in) long.
Blue-backed manakin: southern Colombia, eastern Venezuela, the Guyanas, northeast Brazil, the Amazon Basin in Brazil, Bolivia, Ecuador and Peru; and in Tobago. Chiroxiphia boliviana: Yungas manakin: Yungas of southeastern Peru and Bolivia. Chiroxiphia caudata: Blue manakin: south-eastern Brazil, eastern Paraguay and far north-eastern Argentina.
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 ]
The blue manakin or swallow-tailed manakin (Chiroxiphia caudata) is a small species of bird in the family Pipridae. It is found mainly in the Atlantic Forest of south-eastern Brazil, eastern Paraguay and far north-eastern Argentina. Its typical habitat is wet lowland or montane forest and heavily degraded former forest.
Blue-backed manakin. Order: Passeriformes Family: Pipridae. Pale-bellied tyrant manakin (Neopelma pallescens) Blue-backed manakin (Chiroxiphia pareola) Araripe manakin (Antilophia bokermanni) (ES) Band-tailed manakin (Pipra fasciicauda)
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The motmots have colourful plumage and long, graduated tails which they display by waggling back and forth. In most of the species, the barbs near the ends of the two longest (central) tail feathers are weak and fall off, leaving a length of bare shaft and creating a racket-shaped tail.
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