Birds of Costa Rica

    PASSERIFORMES: Pipridae (Manakins)  
Genus: Lepidothrix (1 species, 9 worldwide)


Velvety Manakin
Velvety Manakin (Lepidothrix velutina minuscula) Male
Jaco, Puntarenas, Costa Rica  
   
Photograph by Jorge Obando Gutierrez   © Copyrighted, All Rights Reserved.

Velvety Manakin
Velvety Manakin (Lepidothrix velutina minuscula) Female
Bahia Solano, Choco, Colombia  
   
Photograph by Tom Friedel   © All Rights Reserved.

Formerly called the Blue-crowned Manakin. The Pacific and Central American subspecies were split from the Amazon subspecies (now called Blue-capped Manakin)


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