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Araripe Manakins consume fruit and arthropods, although fruits are the primary item in their diet. Females have a more diverse diet than males, because the more cryptic olive-green plumage of females provides them with a greater degree of camouflage in forests, allowing them to find food with less predation , meanwhile, males are a very bright ...
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 ]
Until the discovery of the Araripe manakin, the helmeted manakin was the only known member of the genus Antilophia. In the taxonomic revision to create monotypic genera, all two species of Antilophia was reclassified to Chiroxiphia. They are the only two species of manakin with dichromatic (two-coloured) male plumage. Species
The Araripe manakin (Antilophia bokermanni) is a very rare bird that was discovered only in the late 20th century; it is not known from anywhere outside the characteristic forest that grows on the Chapada do Araripe soils formed ultimately from Crato and Santana Formation rocks.
The helmeted manakin was placed together with the critically endangered Araripe manakin in the genus Antilophia that was introduced by Ludwig Reichenbach in 1850. [4] Antilophia were considered very closely related to Chiroxiphia , another genus of manakin which inhabit rainforests in Central and South America, and there is possible ...
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Accipitriformes (hawks, eagles, vultures, and kites) Anseriformes (waterfowl) Apodiformes (swifts and hummingbirds) Caprimulgiformes (nightjars and relatives) Charadriiformes (gulls and relatives)
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