Crimson-hooded Manakin
Pipra aureola (Linnaeus, 1758)
Pipridae — Manakins
Crimson-hooded Manakin, Pipra aureola, is a passerine of the manakin family that breeds in north-eastern and eastern Amazonia in South America, including Brazil, French Guiana, Guyana, Suriname and Venezuela. It is a resident bird. The species is best recognised by the male’s crimson head and upper breast, set against an orange-yellow face and throat, while females are mainly olive-green above with greyer underparts. It lives in wet forest, river-edge woodland, secondary growth and, in some places, mangroves and white-sand campina forest. Males perform a lek display, and the nest is a small cup placed low in a shrub.
- Order
- Passeriformes
- Family
- Pipridae — Manakins
- Breeding range
- South America: ne, e Amazonia
