Andean rock cock

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Andean rock cock
Male Andean Rooster (Rupicola peruvianus)

Male Andean Rooster ( Rupicola peruvianus )

Systematics
Order : Passerines (Passeriformes)
Subordination : Screeching Birds (Tyranni)
Family : Ornamental birds (Cotingidae)
Subfamily : Rupicolinae
Genre : Rock Roosters ( Rupicola )
Type : Andean rock cock
Scientific name
Rupicola peruvianus
( Latham , 1790)
Male Andean rock cock
Female of the Andean rock cock

The Andean rocks Hahn ( Rupicola peruvianus ), and Andean bird or Red Rock Hahn called, is a South American bird art from the family of Bellbirds (Cotingidae). He is the national bird of Peru .

features

The Andean rock cocks have a stocky shape with strong feet. The male has a size of 35 to 38 cm. There are two subspecies: the male of the subspecies Rupicola peruvianus aequatorialis is deeply orange, the female bird is orange-brown, the males of Rupicola peruvianus sanguiolenta are scarlet red, the females are dark chestnut red . The wings and tail of the male birds are black and the elongated wing-covers are colored light gray. The most striking feature is the arched feather comb that extends from the back of the head to the beak and almost covers the beak. The female has a smaller hood.

Occurrence

The bird lives in tropical and subtropical heights of the Andes from Venezuela to Bolivia . There it inhabits dense, moist forests and also secondary forests near rivers and streams with loosely tree-lined, rocky gorges and forests with bare rock.

behavior

The Andean rock cock feeds on fruits, insects and small vertebrates.

Reproduction

During the breeding season, up to 50 males meet in a clearing for group courtship. The male sits on a branch or a ledge and advertises females by raising their feathers and shouting loudly.

The female builds a bowl-shaped nest out of clay on a protected rock wall or in a cave and incubates the usually two eggs alone.

Subspecies

So far, four subspecies are known:

  • Rupicola peruvianus aequatorialis Taczanowski , 1889
  • Rupicola peruvianus peruvianus ( Latham , 1790)
  • Rupicola peruvianus sanguinolentus Gould , 1859
  • Rupicola peruvianus saturatus Cabanis & Heine , 1859

The subspecies sanguinolentus occurs in the western Andes of Colombia and in the northwest of Ecuador. The subspecies aequatorialis can be found in the Andes of western Venezuela, in the central and eastern parts of Colombia and on the eastern slopes of southern Ecuador up to the Peruvian Amazon. In Venezuela, this is northwest of Barinas as well as in the state of Táchira . In Peru, it is also present in the north of the San Martín region . In central Peru, from the south of San Martín to the south of Junín , one can refer to the spp. meet peruvianus . Finally, in the southeast and western Bolivia, the ssp. saturatus native. Here you can see them around La Paz and Cochabamba .

literature

  • Wolfgang Baars: Fruit eater and flower visitor. Eugen Ulmer Verlag, Stuttgart 1986, ISBN 3-8001-7088-4 .
  • Colin Harrison, Alan Greensmith: Birds. Dorling Kindersley Limited, London 1993, 2000, ISBN 3-8310-0785-3 .
  • Bryan Richard: Birds. Parragon, Bath, ISBN 1-4054-5506-3 .
  • The modern animal lexicon. Bertelsmann Publishing Group, Volume 3, 1981.
  • John Latham: Index ornithologicus, sive, Systema ornithologiae; complectens avium divisionem in classes, ordines, genera, species, ipsarumque varietates: adjectis synonymis, locis, descriptionibus, & c. tape 2 . Prostant Venales Apud Leigh et Sotheby, London 1790 ( biodiversitylibrary.org ).
  • John Gould: On the Members of the Genus Rupicola, and whether there be two or more species . In: Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London . tape 27 , no. 304 , 1859, pp. 99-100 ( biodiversitylibrary.org ).
  • Władysław Taczanowski: Kollekc i Zoologičeskago kabineta Imperatorskago Varšavskago universiteta.I. Spisok ”tipičnyh” ekzemplârov ”ptic”, po kotorym ”byli ustanovleny novye vidy . In: Varšavskiâ Universitetskiâ Izvestiâ . tape 4 , 1889, p. 1-40 .
  • Jean Louis Cabanis , Ferdinand Heine junior: Museum Heineanum Directory of the ornithological collection of Oberamtmann Ferdinand Heine on Gut St. Burchard in front of Halberstatdt. With critical comments and a description of the new species, systematically edited by Jean Cabanis, first custodian of the Royal Zoological Collection in Berlin and Ferdinand Heine, Stud. Philos. Volume 2 . R. Frantz, Halberstadt 1859 ( biodiversitylibrary.org - 1859-1860).

Web links

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Baars: Fruit Eaters and Flower Visitors . P. 47.
  2. ↑ IOC World Bird List Cotingas, manakins, tityras, becards
  3. ^ Władysław Taczanowski, p. 19.
  4. ^ John Latham, p. 555.
  5. ^ John Gould, p. 100.
  6. ↑ Jean Louis Cabanis et al. a., p. 99.