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Birds
Long-tailed manakin
Long-tailed manakin · Chiroxiphia linearis
Strikingly colourful courtship dancer with a bright blue back and long tail feathers, often singing together in the undergrowth.
Fact file
- Size
- Compact 13 to 16 centimetres, weighing up to 25 grams
- Males and females
- Males with bright colouring and long tail feathers, females plain green
- Sounds
- Typical clicking and twittering courtship calls
- Diet
- Feeds mainly on small fruits as well as insects
- Offspring
- The female lays one to two eggs and raises the young on her own
How to identify Long-tailed manakin
The long-tailed manakin stands out with its deep black plumage and intensely glowing, sky-blue back. Particularly distinctive are the two elongated black tail feathers that extend well beyond the rest of the plumage.
The bright red head feathers give the long-tailed manakin a striking contrast. With a body length of 13 to 16 centimetres it is fairly compact in build. Females are mostly olive green and have no conspicuous tail feathers, which clearly distinguishes them from the males.
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