Yellow Pants Pipra

Yellow Pants Pipra
	Gelbhosenpipra, male
Systematics
Subordination :	Screeching Birds (Tyranni)
Family :	Purrbirds (Pipridae)
Subfamily :	Piprinae
Tribe :	Piprini
Genre :	Pipra
Type :	Yellow Pants Pipra
Scientific name
	Pipra mentalis
	Sclater, PL , 1857

Illustration from the 19th century. In front the male, behind the plainly colored female

The Yellow Pants Pipra ( Pipra mentalis ) is a Central American purr .

features

The plumage of the males is mostly black. The feathers on the head and neck have a very striking red tone (hence the English name "Red-capped Manakin"). The chin and the under wing coverts are bright yellow. The lower legs also stand out with an intense yellow and have given rise to the name “yellow pants”. The females look completely different and considerably less conspicuous. Their plumage is brownish-olive in color on the upper side of the body. The underside is greenish to yellowish. Fledglings resemble the female bird.

Occurrence

The bird lives primarily in the tropical rainforests of Colombia , Costa Rica , Mexico and Panama . It usually occurs below an altitude of 600 meters.

Reproduction

In order to impress the females, the male of the yellow trousers performs several rituals. Like other Pipra males, it jumps around in the branches very quickly and, in order to attract attention, can generate very shrill instrument sounds by flapping its wing tips 80 times a second. A special ability of the yellow trousers is to take small, quick steps backwards to give the impression that they are moving backwards without moving their legs.

literature

Wolfgang Baars: Fruit eater and flower visitor . Eugen Ulmer Verlag, Stuttgart 1986, ISBN 3-8001-7088-4 .

Web links

Commons : Gelbhosenpipra ( Pipra mentalis ) - Collection of images, videos and audio files

For more information (english)

Image of a male

Picture of a female

Avibase dataset of Northern Yellow Pants Pipra ( Pipra mentalis ) Sclater, PL, 1857

Videos, photos and sound recordings of Pipra mentalis in the Internet Bird Collection

Ceratopipra mentalis inthe IUCN 2013 Red List of Endangered Species . Listed by: BirdLife International, 2012. Retrieved February 2, 2014.

Individual evidence

↑ Wolfgang Baars: Fruit Eaters and Flower Visitors . Eugen Ulmer Verlag, Stuttgart 1986, p. 52.

[1] Wolfgang Baars: Fruit Eaters and Flower Visitors . Eugen Ulmer Verlag, Stuttgart 1986, p. 52.