Black manakin
The black manakin is a species of bird in the family Pipridae. It is found in Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, French Guiana, Guyana, Peru, Suriname, and Venezuela.
Taxonomy and systematics
erected genus Xenopipo in 1847 with the black manakin as its type species. It shares the genus with the olive manakin. The black manakin is monotypic.Description
The black manakin is long and weighs. The species is sexually dimorphic. Adult males are almost entirely glossy black; their wings and tail are slightly duller and browner. Adult females have dark olive upperparts, a grayish throat, and yellowish olive underparts. Both sexes have a dark brown iris and dark olive-gray legs and feet. Both sexes have a heavy bill; males' are pale bluish gray and females' have a blackish maxilla and a pale bluish gray mandible.Distribution and habitat
The black manakin has a highly disjunct distribution. One large range extends from Meta Department in central Colombia widening to the east across northern Amazonas and Roraima in northern Brazil, Amazonas and southern and central Bolívar in Venezuela, most of Guyana, northern French Guiana and Suriname, and back into northern Brazil in Amapá. Another large range is in central Amazonian Brazil in a triangle roughly bounded by east-central Amazonas, central Goiás, and eastern Tocantins. There are also small scattered Brazilian populations in southern Amazonas, Acre, and Rondônia. It also occurs very thinly in Brazil between the two large ranges. There are additional small populations in Peru's Loreto, Ucayali, and southern Madre de Dios and Bolivia's Beni and Santa Cruz.The black manakin inhabits a variety of somewhat open landscapes including savanna woodlands and thickets, gallery forest, and stunted várzea. Much of its habitat is on nutrient-poor sandy soils. In elevation it is found below in Colombia and mostly below but up to in Venezuela.