| Flame-crested Manakin Heterocercus linteatus (aka Flame-crowned Manakin) Brazilian name: coroa-de-fogo |
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Cristalino, Mato Grosso, Brazil December 2006 The Flame-crested Manakin is distributed in the Amazon Basin south of the Amazon. It is found in seasonally flooded forest (várzea) and woodland bordering rivers. | |||
| The male is dark olive above with a black head and a red crown stripe which is often concealed. It has a conspicuous white throat above a dark olive breast band below which the chest and belly are chestnut to cinnamon-rufous. The female is similar but duller with a grey throat and no crown patch. There is a recording of its whistled call on xeno-canto. |
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