Order: Passeriformes | Family: Cotingidae | IUCN Status: Least Concern
Age: Adult | Sex: Male | Loc. Amazonia, Brazil
Age: Adult | Sex: Female | Loc. Amazonia, Brazil
Age: Adult | Sex: Male | Loc. Amazonia, Brazil
Age: Adult | Sex: Female | Loc. Amazonia, Brazil
Identification & Behavior: ~20 cm (7.8 in). The male Pompadour Cotinga is all red-wine with white wings and ornate elongated feathers from the back over the wings. The female is all gray with dusky wing. Both sexes have a white iris. It forages in the canopy of nutrient-poor soil forests in pairs or often in small groups. The female is similar to the female Spangled Cotinga and Plum-throated Cotinga but is distinguished by a gray plumage without much markings, white iris, wing coverts and flight feathers fringed with white.
Status: The Pompadour Cotinga is uncommon but restricted to a small region of northeast Amazonia known to have forest on nutrient-poor soils. It also occurs in Co, Ec, Br, and Bo.
Name in Spanish: Cotinga Pomposa.
Sub-species: Pompadour Cotinga (Xipholena punicea), (Pallas), 1764.
Meaning of Name: Xipholena: Gr. xiphos= sword and laina= mantle, cloak. punicea: L. puniceus purple, red.
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- Species range based on: Schulenberg, T. S., D. F. Stotz, and L. Rico. 2006. Distribution maps of the birds of Peru, version 1.0. Environment, Culture & Conservation (ECCo). The Field Museum. http://fm2.fieldmuseum.org/uw_test/birdsofperu on 03/01/2016.