Blue-crowned Manakin

These manakins are found in parts of Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Costa Rica, Ecuador, Panama, Peru, and Venezuela. They mostly eat small fruits, along with some insects, picking food items from twigs and leaves while hovering and often joining mixed-species foraging flocks. Males display at widely spaced leks to attract females. Females build open cup-shaped nests and care for the chicks alone.

Lepidothrix coronata by Mathurin Malby

Blue-crowned manakins (Lepidothrix coronata) can be found from Costa Rica to Bolivia, and are a common species at low-elevation tropical forest. Interestingly, males from the northern population of this species are pure black with a bright blue crown, while southern birds are green with a blue crown.