Club-winged Manakin

Machaeropterus deliciosus (Sclater, PL, 1860)

Club-winged Manakin, Machaeropterus deliciosus, is a bird of the manakin family in South America, breeding from south-west Colombia to western Ecuador. It lives on the western Andean slope, in wet montane forest and mature secondary woodland. The male is notable for the musical sound made by its wings during display at a lek. It is a resident bird, though some individuals in Ecuador move to lower ground outside the breeding season. Its breeding season in Colombia runs from at least March to August, and the nest is a small open cup placed low in a branch fork.

Order

Passeriformes

Family

Pipridae — Manakins

Breeding range

South America: sw Colombia to w Ecuador