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Swallow-tailed Cotinga
Phibalura flavirostris Vieillot, 1816
Cotingidae — Cotingas
Swallow-tailed Cotinga, Phibalura flavirostris, is a passerine of the Cotingidae family that breeds in south-eastern South America, from south-eastern Brazil to eastern Paraguay and north-eastern Argentina. It is a bird of open and partly wooded country, including forest edges, meadows, roadsides with trees and gardens. Its most striking feature is the long, forked tail that gives the species its name. The species was described by Vieillot in 1816. It is found in Argentina, Brazil and Paraguay, with a disjunct range and a small separate population in Goiás.
- Order
- Passeriformes
- Family
- Cotingidae — Cotingas
- Breeding range
- South America: se Brazil to e Paraguay and ne Argentina
