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Choco Manakin
Cryptopipo litae (Hellmayr, 1906)
Pipridae — Manakins
Choco Manakin, Cryptopipo litae, is a manakin of humid forest in eastern Panama, north-western Colombia and north-western Ecuador. It lives from lowland country into foothills, using the undergrowth and middle layers of evergreen forest. The species is split into two subspecies, with the northern form in Panama and Colombia and the nominate form west of the Andes in Colombia and Ecuador. It is a year-round resident. Its breeding season has been recorded in different months across its range, and one nest was a shallow cup fixed in a branch fork above a stream.
- Order
- Passeriformes
- Family
- Pipridae — Manakins
- Breeding range
- Middle America, South America: e Panama, w Colombia, w Ecuador
