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Turquoise Cotinga
Cotinga ridgwayi Ridgway, 1887
Cotingidae — Cotingas
Turquoise Cotinga, Cotinga ridgwayi, is a passerine of the Cotingidae family that breeds in Middle America, in Costa Rica and Panama. It was described by Ridgway in 1887. In Costa Rica it occurs from the southern Gulf of Nicoya along the Pacific slope, and in Panama it is known from western Chiriquí Province. It lives in humid evergreen forest and secondary woodland within the tropical zone. The bird is a monotypic species and is usually silent. Its known nest was a shallow cup in a fork of a horizontal branch, with two eggs recorded in March.
- Order
- Passeriformes
- Family
- Cotingidae — Cotingas
- Breeding range
- Middle America: Costa Rica, Panama
