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WHITE-BEARDED MANAKIN Manacus manacus
Armed with a wing of weirdly-shaped feathers, this distinctive little manakin is able to produce a surprisingly loud crackling noise when lekking - just the ticket for attracting amorous females! The male is a handsome black-and-white bird, far more eyecatching than the dull greenish female. Look out for him in the dense undergrowth of humid Atlantic forest in the north-east of the country.
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FIGURE 1 - (FPAVE3135PH) Adult male, Mbaracayś Biosphere Reserve, Departamento Canindeyś (Paul Smith October 2008).
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Manacus manacus
1 (FPAVE3136RE) Call and wing snap recorded Mbaracayś Biosphere Reserve, Departamento Canindeyś (Paul Smith October 2008).
Click the links to hear the calls. 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.
