Spangled Cotinga

Spangled Cotinga
Male at Burgers' Zoo, Netherlands
Conservation status
Least Concern (IUCN 3.1)
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Aves
Order:	Passeriformes
Family:	Cotingidae
Genus:	Cotinga
Species:	C. cayana
Binomial name
Cotinga cayana (Linnaeus, 1766)

The Spangled Cotinga (Cotinga cayana) is a species of bird in the Cotingidae family, the cotingas. It is found in the canopy of the Amazon Rainforest in South America.

The species is sexually dimorphic with the male being a bright turquoise-blue with a large deep wine-red throat and black to the wings, tail and back. The female is overall dull brownish-gray with darker wings and faint mottling below. As other members of the genus Cotinga, this species is frugivorous, but it has also been recorded feeding on insects.

At Jurong Bird Park, Singapore

Female at Jurong Bird Park, Singapore

References

• BirdLife International 2004. Cotinga cayana. 2006 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Downloaded on 25 July 2007.

External links

• Stamps (for Suriname) with RangeMap
• Spangled Cotinga photo gallery VIREO
• Photo-High Res-(male)—(Shows wine-red throat); Article tekipaki.jp

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