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White-bibbed Manakin | Corapipo leucorrhoa
Witbefmanakin | Saltarín pechiblanco | Dançarino-de-babador-branco
The White-bibbed Manakin is a small blue-black manakin with a white throat patch from northern Colombia and north-western Venezuela. Like the related White-ruffed Manakin, the male displays on fallen logs on the forest floor. In the guide area it is a species of the hill forest at the northern end of the Andes.
Voice
A high, thin tseee or see-see. During display short crackling wing sounds.
No recording with a suitable Creative Commons licence is available for this species yet.
Identification
10 cm, compact, with a short tail and a short black bill. The male is glossy blue-black with a white throat that ends as a bib on the upper breast and extends less far to the sides than in White-ruffed Manakin. The female is olive-green above, with a grey throat and sides of the head, an olive-grey breast and a paler, yellowish belly. Young males are green with the first black feathers on the head and body.
Confusion species
White-ruffed Manakin Corapipo altera is very similar, but the male has a whiter throat that extends further onto the sides of the neck; it lives in the far north-west of Colombia. The male White-crowned Manakin Pseudopipra pipra has a white crown and a black throat. Females of Golden-headed Manakin Ceratopipra erythrocephala and other manakins lack the grey throat.
Habitat
Humid foothill forest and lower montane forest, also older secondary forest and shady coffee plantations, at roughly 200 to 1500 m. It lives in the understorey and middle storey and eats small fruits and insects.
Where the bird is most at home, classified by the vegetation units of the Andes and the west coast.
Range and movements
In the guide area only in Colombia, in the north: at the northern ends of the Western, Central and Eastern Andes, in the Serranía de San Lucas, along the slopes of the middle Magdalena valley and in the Serranía del Perijá. Absent from Ecuador, Peru, Bolivia and the Galápagos. Outside the guide area in north-western Venezuela.
- Resident
- dark = core range, pale = thinly spread
How and when to look
In humid hill forest on the edges of the middle Magdalena valley and at the northern end of the Central Andes, for example in Antioquia. Listen for the high tseee and search the understorey near fruiting shrubs.
Conservation status
Not Evaluated in the taxonomy followed by this guide. The range is fairly small and the hill forest of northern Colombia is heavily fragmented by deforestation.
Scientific name
Corapipo leucorrhoa | (Sclater, 1863)
Sclater described the species in 1863 as Pipra leucorrhoa; because it was later moved to another genus, the author and year stand in brackets. The genus Corapipo was introduced in 1854 by Bonaparte. The second part of the genus name is New Latin pipo, 'manakin'. Bonaparte gave no explanation for the first part; it may be Greek korax, 'raven' (i.e. black), korē, 'maiden, nymph', or korē, 'shining pupil of the eye'. The specific name comes from Greek leukos, 'white', and orrhos, 'rump'. The specimen the first description was based on came from Bucaramanga, Santander, Colombia.