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Birds
Red-capped manakin
Red-capped manakin · Ceratopipra mentalis
With its red head and yellow leg tufts, the red-capped manakin really stands out as it performs its unique dance in the rainforest undergrowth.
Fact file
- Size
- Around 11 cm small, about 15–18 g light
- Males and females
- Male brightly coloured, female olive green and inconspicuous
- Sounds
- Dry rattling call, wing beats as a sound during courtship jumps
- Diet
- Mainly fruit, occasionally small insects
- Offspring
- The female usually lays two eggs and incubates them on her own
How to identify Red-capped manakin
The red-capped manakin is a small, lively bird with strikingly high-contrast plumage. You can recognise the male by its bright red head, glossy black body and the bright yellow thighs and undertail coverts that gave the species its name. The legs are greyish and short. The bill looks sturdy and dark, and the eyes stand out as deep black. Females and young birds are much more inconspicuous, olive green with a brownish cap and showing less colour contrast.
At just under eleven centimetres in body length, the red-capped manakin is one of the smaller tropical rainforest birds. Its compact appearance with rounded body and short tail sets it clearly apart from more slender species. It can be confused with other manakins, for example the golden-crowned manakin, but that species has black thighs and a different head pattern.
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