White-crowned Manakin (Dixiphia pipra)
(aka Pipra pipra)
Male White-crowned Manakin, Thaimaçu, Pará, Brazil, April 2003 - click for larger image Thaimaçu, Pará, Brazil
April 2003

The White-crowned Manakin is distributed in from Costa Rica to Colombia and the Amazon Basin with a disjunct population in eastern Brazil. It is found in the undergrowth of forest usually about 3 to 6 metres off the ground.

Male White-crowned Manakin, Thaimaçu, Pará, Brazil, April 2003 - click for larger image The male is all black with a white crown and nape. The iris is red. The female has olive green upperparts with a grey crown and greyish underparts. The iris is also red.

There are illustrations in Ridgely & Tudor, Volume 2, Plate 47.
Male White-crowned Manakin, Thaimaçu, Pará, Brazil, April 2003 - click for larger image
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