Bearded Bellbird (Procnias averano)

Family
Cotingidae (Cotingas)

Size
26 - 29 cm

First Described (Guide)
(Hermann, 1783)

Habitat
Subtropical and tropical moist lowland forest. From sea-level - 1,900 m.

Range (Guide)

Brazil, Colombia, Guyana, Trinidad and Tobago, Venezuela.

Population
Estimated population is unknown (2010).

Status LC
For more information see BirdLife International Species Factsheet.

Voice
Xeno-Canto Sound Files (more (20)...)

Bearded Bellbird (Procnias averano) [XC427845]
by Dan Lane from Serra da Aratanha, Pacatuba-CE, Cear\u00e1, Brazil (canto)

Bearded Bellbird (Procnias averano) [XC493159]
by Ciro Albano from Aragua\u00edna, State of Tocantins Campus UFT, Brazil (song)

Subspecies
Almost certainly most closely related to Bare-throated Bellbird (Procnias nudicollis), with which it shares several morphological characters in male (bare thigh patch, modification of outer primaries).

The following 2 subspecies are recognised:

carnobarba (Cuvier, 1816) - Extreme northern Colombia (northern end of Perij� Mts), north, south-eastern and extreme southern Venezuela, northern Brazil (Roraima) and adjacent western Guyana. Also Trinidad.
averano (Hermann, 1783) - North-eastern Brazil (southern Maranh�o and northern Cear� south to Alagoas).

References
See References.

Files:

JPG files for Bearded Bellbird (Procnias averano) - 10 files

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