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HELMETED MANAKIN Antilophia galeata CERRADO
This extraordinary manakin is endemic to the cerrado region where he is locally distributed in bushy areas along water courses. Males are handsome black and red birds with a weird pointy crest that gives them their common name. Like all manakins they are suckers for playback, and a surefire way to know if the bird is in the area is to blast out his call and wait for the rapid response.
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FIGURE 1 - (FPAVE1909PH) Adult male, Aguara Ñu, Mbaracayú Biosphere Reserve, Departamento Canindeyú (Ronald Hoff October 2004).
Antilophia galeatus
1 (FPAVE1910RE) song recorded Aguara Ñu, Mbaracayú Biosphere Reserve, Departamento Canindeyú (Myriam Velázquez November 2000).
2 (FPAVE1911RE) descending song recorded Aguara Ñu, Mbaracayú Biosphere Reserve, Departamento Canindeyú (Myriam Velázquez November 2000).
3 (FPAVE1912RE) variant song recorded Aguara Ñu, Mbaracayú Biosphere Reserve, Departamento Canindeyú (Myriam Velázquez November 2000).
Click the link to hear the call. Longer versions of this call can be downloaded from the Paraguay page of our partner website Xeno-Canto - the largest collection of freely downloadable Neotropical bird calls available online.
