Yellow-headed Manakin
Chloropipo flavicapilla (Sclater, PL, 1852)
Pipridae — Manakins
Yellow-headed Manakin, Chloropipo flavicapilla, is a passerine in the Pipridae family that breeds in South America, in Colombia and Ecuador. It lives in humid montane forest and secondary woodland in the subtropical zone, and in Colombia it is recorded from the western Andes and the western slope of the Central Andes. The bird is a resident species. It is recognised by the male’s golden-yellow crown and nape, with bright olive upperparts and a paler yellowish olive face, throat and breast. Females are less yellow on the head and breast, and juveniles are duller still.
- Order
- Passeriformes
- Family
- Pipridae — Manakins
- Breeding range
- South America: Colombia and Ecuador
