Yellow-crested manakin
The yellow-crested manakin, also called the yellow-crowned manakin, is a species of bird in the family Pipridae. It is found in Brazil, Colombia, and Venezuela.
Taxonomy and systematics
The yellow-crested manakin is monotypic. It shares genus Heterocercus with the orange-crested manakin and the flame-crested manakin. The three form a superspecies.Description
The yellow-crested manakin is about long and weighs about. The species is sexually dimorphic. Adult males have a mostly dark olive head with an often hidden golden-yellow stripe on the crown, a slaty face, and a white throat. The throat feathers are long and silky. Their upperparts are dark olive. They have a sooty olive upper breast, a deep chestnut lower breast that becomes cinnamon-rufous on the belly, and olive flanks. Adult females have no yellow on their crown. Their head is mostly the same dark olive as their upperparts though their throat is gray. Their underparts are cinnamon-buff. Both sexes have a dark brown iris, a long narrow dark bill, and dark legs and feet. Immatures resemble adult females.Distribution and habitat
The yellow-crested manakin is found in approximately the east-central quarter of Colombia and east into Venezuela and northern Brazil. In Venezuela it occurs in extreme southeastern Apure and in most of western and central Amazonas. In Brazil it occurs north of the Amazon River from Colombia and Venezuela in the basin of the Negro River east to western Pará.The yellow-crested manakin inhabits humid várzea forest and other scrubby forest and woodland along watercourses including blackwater rivers. In elevation it reaches about in Colombia and in Venezuela.