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umbrellabird was
described by Sir
Alfred Wallace, a
companion of
Charles Darwin, in the 1800s
while on an
expedition to
South America.
Umbrellabirds face...
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habitat loss. The bare-necked
umbrellabird is one of
three species in the
genus Cephalopterus,
commonly known as the
umbrellabirds. It was
first described by...
- 2.343. JSTOR 4085313. Snow, D. W. (1982). The Cotingas: bellbirds,
umbrellabirds, and
other species.
Cornell University Presslocation=Ithaca, NY. Ridgely...
- and
weighs up to 380
grams (0.84 lb). As in the
other umbrellabirds, the
Amazonian umbrellabird is
almost entirely black, has a con****uous
crest on the...
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being brightly coloured, or
decorated with
plumes or wattles, like the
umbrellabirds, with
their umbrella-like
crest and long
throat wattles.
Other lekking...
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wattles may be ****ociated with
genes coding for
disease resistance. In
umbrellabirds, the
wattle serves to
amplify the birds' calls.
Birds with
wattles include:...
- from the
Amazonian and long-wattled
umbrellabirds – indeed,
females average larger than any
female umbrellabird. Its
plumage is
overall rich brown, approaching...
- the gray brocket,
howler monkey, green-billed
toucan and the
Amazonian umbrellabird. Air
pollution in some
districts of the city
exceeds local standards...
- mocinno), three-wattled
bellbird (Procnias tricarunculata), bare-necked
umbrellabird (Cephalopterus glabricollis), and
black guan (Chamaepetes unicolor)....
- 21 lb). The
latter species competes with the
similarly sized Amazonian umbrellabird (Cephalopterus ornatus) as the
largest p****erine in
South America. Pelicans...
