White-collared Manakin

Manacus candei (Parzudaki, 1841)

White-collared Manakin, Manacus candei, is a passerine in the manakin family and breeds in Middle America from south-eastern Mexico to western Panama. It lives in thickets along moist forest margins, in tall secondary growth and in old cacao plantations. Males are marked by a black crown, a dark band across the middle of the back, wings and tail, an olive-green rump and a yellow belly. Females and young birds are olive-green with yellow underparts and look like female Orange-collared Manakins. During breeding, males gather on the forest floor and raise their neck feathers.

Order

Passeriformes

Family

Pipridae — Manakins

Breeding range

Middle America: se Mexico to w Panama