Manakins (Pipridae)
Club-winged Manakin (Machaeropterus deliciosus) - HBW 9, p. 159
French: Manakin à ailes blanches
German: Keulenschwingenpipra
Spanish: Saltarín Alitorcido
Taxonomy: Pipra deliciosa P. L. Sclater, 1860, Nanegal, Pichincha, Ecuador.
Formerly placed in a monotypic genus Allocotopterus on basis of highly modified secondaries, but now considered better merged with present genus, other members of which (M. pyrocephalus, M. striolatus, M. regulus) exhibit similar, though less extreme, modifications. Monotypic.
Distribution: W slope of Andes in SW Colombia (S from Risaralda) and W Ecuador (S to Pichincha, also in El Oro and W Loja).
- Least Concern Enlarge map
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A male in a lek, displaying Locality Milpe, Pichincha Province, Ecuador (Monotypic species)
Josep del Hoyo 31 January 2005 6 years ago 27 sec 4.9 -
A male displaying in a lek Locality Milpe, Pichincha Province, Ecuador (Monotypic species)
Josep del Hoyo 31 January 2005 6 years ago 31 sec 4.7 -
A female brooding two nestlings Locality Buenaventura Reserve, El Oro Province, Ecuador (Monotypic species)
Yanayacu Biological Station 15 February 2004 4 years ago 27 sec 4.7 -
A female in the nest, incubating Locality Buenaventura Reserve, El Oro Province, Ecuador (Monotypic species)
Yanayacu Biological Station 15 February 2004 4 years ago 40 sec 4.6 -
A female arriving to the nest to feed the two nestlings and eating their faecal sacs Locality Buenaventura Reserve, El Oro Province, Ecuador (Monotypic species)
Yanayacu Biological Station 15 February 2004 4 years ago 41 sec 3.9 -
A male performing the courtship display Locality Buenaventura Reserve, El Oro Province, Ecuador (Monotypic species)
Richard Garrigues 6 January 2007 4 years ago 19 sec 3.7
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Adult male performing display. This shot is part of the movement of the wings that produces the sound.
Locality Las Grallarias Reserve, Pichincha Province, Ecuador (Monotypic species)
Dusan Brinkhuizen 27 August 2011 26 weeks ago 4.5 -
Male perched.
Locality Las Grallarias Reserve, Pichincha Province, Ecuador (Monotypic species)
Dusan Brinkhuizen 27 August 2011 26 weeks ago 4.2 -
Male displaying
Locality Milpe, Pichincha Province, Ecuador
Helmut Schumann 19 November 2008 2 years ago 3.4
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Display sound of adult male. This sound is exclusively produced by the wings! Locality Las Grallarias Reserve, Pichincha Province, Ecuador
(Monotypic species)
Dusan Brinkhuizen 27 July 2011 26 weeks ago 5 -
display of two males, sound produced by the wings! Locality Milpe, Pichincha Province, Ecuador
(Monotypic species)
Dusan Brinkhuizen 20 August 2009 2 years ago 3
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