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 VU    Long-wattled Umbrellabird* Id (Atlas):
    Cephalopterus penduliger

Description (10)
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Family
Cotingidae (Cotingas)

Size
36 - 51 cm

First Described (Guide)
Sclater, 1859

Habitat
Humid and wet forest. From 80 - 1,800 m.

Range (Guide)
Colombia (B), Ecuador (B).

Pacific slope of Andes in south-western Colombia (southern from Valle) and western Ecuador (south to El Oro).
 
Population
Estimated population is 10,000 - 19,999 (2010) and decreasing.

Status VU
Habitat destruction and degradation through logging, small-scale agriculture, illegal coca plantations, gold mining and hunting are the main threats.

For more information see BirdLife International Species Factsheet.

Food
Palm-nuts, insects, amphibians and reptiles.

Voice
Generally silent, but displaying males grunt.

Xeno-Canto Sound Files (more (16)...)

 
Long-wattled Umbrellabird (Cephalopterus penduliger) [XC282556]
     by id from Esmeraldas: Reserva Jatun Sacha de Bilsa, Ecuador (call)

 
Long-wattled Umbrellabird (Cephalopterus penduliger) [XC46118]
     by Juan Freile from Esmeraldas: Reserva Jatun Sacha de Bilsa, Ecuador (call, wing claps and booming calls)

Subspecies
No subspecies.

May form a superspecies with Bare-necked Umbrellabird (Cephalopterus glabricollis) and Amazonian Umbrellabird (Cephalopterus ornatus) and all three suggested by some as being possibly conspecific, but this considered unlikely.


References
See References.


Files:
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