Ornamental birds

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Ornamental birds
Andean cliff bird (Rupicola peruviana), male

Andean cliff bird ( Rupicola peruviana ), male

Systematics
Subclass : New-jawed birds (Neognathae)
Order : Passerines (Passeriformes)
Subordination : Screeching Birds (Tyranni)
Partial order : Screaming birds of the New World (Tyrannides)
without rank: Tyrannida
Family : Ornamental birds
Scientific name
Cotingidae
Bonaparte , 1849

The ornamental birds (Cotingidae) are a family in the order of the passerine birds (Passeriformes). Ornate birds occur in the tropics and subtropics of South America.

They are short-legged, small to large forest birds of different colors. The males of this family often have magnificent and colorful plumage. The females, on the other hand, are somewhat duller in color. Some of the species also have bare skin flaps at the beak corners or forehead, have inflatable throat pouches and special splendid feathers.

They live solitary and feed on fruits and insects.

Reproduction

Some species breed in holes in trees or in the ground, others build a nest that can be a flat bowl in a fork of a branch or a nest that is open on only one side at the tip of a branch. A nest made of mud and earth built on rock is also possible. Ornamental birds lay isabel- or olive-colored eggs that are spotted dark brown and gray. The eggs are only ever incubated by the female.

Genera and species

Turquoise kotinga ( Cotinga cayana )
The courtship song of the male single-lobed kotinga ( Procnias albus ) is louder than the voice of any other bird.
Hämmerling ( Procnias tricarunculata )

literature

Web links

Commons : Ornate Birds  - Album with pictures, videos and audio files

Single receipts

  1. ↑ Pagel, Marcordes: Exotic soft-eaters . P. 95.
  2. ↑ Jeffrey Podos, Mario Cohn-Haft: Extremely loud mating songs at close range in white bellbirds. Current Biology, Volume 29, ISSUE 20, October, 2019, DOI: https: //doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2019.09.028