Cotingas (Cotingidae)
Scaled Fruiteater (Ampelioides tschudii) - HBW 9, p. 84
French: Cotinga écaillé
German: Schuppenkotinga
Spanish: Frutero Escamoso
Taxonomy: C[otinga] Tschudii G. R. Gray, 1846, Pangos, east of Tarma, Junín, Peru.
Possibly most closely related to Pipreola. Monotypic.
Distribution: Sierra de Perijá (on Colombia-Venezuela border), and locally in Andes from Venezuela (Lara, SE Tachirá) and N Colombia S to NW Bolivia (La Paz, W Beni); also coastal ranges of Ecuador, in W Esmeraldas and Guayas (Loma Alta), in W Ecuador; also, locally, E of Andes in Colombia (Sierra de Macarena) and Peru (Cordillera Azul).
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A female perched and preening, seen from below Locality Mindo Valley, Pichincha Province, Ecuador (Monotypic species)
Stefan Behrens 31 August 2005 4 years ago 46 sec 4.1 -
A male singing... and eating Locality Anorí, Antioquía Department, Colombia (Monotypic species)
jonawyp 19 February 2012 9 weeks ago 44 sec 3.3 -
A female in a tree Locality Las Grallarias Reserve, Pichincha Province, Ecuador (Monotypic species)
Richard Garrigues 21 June 2005 5 years ago 6 sec 1.9
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A male, seen from behind at eye-level, sitting on a mossy tree-branch.
Locality Mashpi Rainforest Biodiversity Reserve, La Delicia, Pichincha Province, Ecuador (Monotypic species)
Pia Öberg 7 February 2011 33 weeks ago 4.4 -
A male, seen front on at eye-level, sitting on a mossy branch.
Locality Mashpi Rainforest Biodiversity Reserve, La Delicia, Pichincha Province, Ecuador (Monotypic species)
Pia Öberg 7 February 2011 33 weeks ago 4 -
female
Locality Mindo Valley, Pichincha Province, Ecuador (Monotypic species)
Dusan Brinkhuizen 28 May 2009 2 years ago 3.9 -
A male perched on a branch
Locality Yacambú National Park, Lara State, Venezuela (Monotypic species)
Gustavo A. Rodríguez 20 November 2010 3 weeks ago ADDED LAST MONTH 2.2 -
Female from a couple (my lifebird!)
Locality San Jose del Palmar, Choco Department, Colombia (Monotypic species)
Diego Calderon - COLOMBIA... 8 February 2012 7 weeks ago 2.1
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call of male Locality Milpe, Pichincha Province, Ecuador
(Monotypic species)
Dusan Brinkhuizen 11 November 2009 2 years ago 4
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