The Red-capped Manakin (Ceratopipra mentalis) is a Chunky little bird of middle levels and understory in humid tropical forest of lowlands. Away from display areas, usually found in ones and twos perched quietly or feeding at fruiting trees and bushes from understory to canopy. Often sits still for long periods and easily overlooked.
- Conservation Status : Least concern
- Habitat : Forests, Shrublands, Wetlands
- Class: Aves
- Order: Passeriformes
- Family: Pipridae
- Genus: Ceratopipra
Diet
Feeds mainly on small fruits. It also consumes insects such as beetles, flies and flying termites.
Colors
Male unmistakable: flame-red head glows in shady forest. Female notably drab, dull greenish with dull pinkish bill, dark legs, best identified by shape and behavior.
Fun Facts
At breeding time, males are involved in lekking behaviour on the forest floor during which they puff out their neck feathers.
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