Wire-tailed Manakin
Pipra filicauda Spix, 1825
Pipridae — Manakins
Wire-tailed Manakin, Pipra filicauda, is a passerine of the manakin family that breeds in north-west Amazonia in South America. It is a resident bird and lives in a range of fairly open habitats, especially where there are watercourses. These include gallery forest, secondary forest and open woodland, and it also uses coffee and cacao plantations in Venezuela. Its breeding range covers eastern Ecuador, north-eastern Peru, Colombia, western Venezuela and north-western to central Brazil. The species is sexually dimorphic, and the male’s tail filaments are a key feature of its courtship display.
- Order
- Passeriformes
- Family
- Pipridae — Manakins
- Breeding range
- South America: nw Amazonia
