Black-capped Donacobius

Tube Potter ( Donacobius atricapilla )

The pipe or tube Potter Mockingbird ( Donacobius atricapilla ) is a South American songbird and the only species of the genus Donacobius. By 1982, the tube Potter for a Mockingbird was held.

Features

The 23 cm long tube Potter is a bird with a black cap, brown top and tail, orange-yellow underside and orange eyes.

Occurrence

The bird lives in swamps, marshes and wet meadows from the east of Panama to Bolivia and northern Argentina.

Behavior

The tube Potter live in pairs in solid grounds. Often they sit together on branches singing loudly, twitching their heads and bobbing their tails. This behavior serves to warn off intruders.

The bird feeds on insects. If he feels disturbed, it flies from his residence in dense vegetation to an exposed waiting and " insulted " the intruder. The tube Potter breeds in an open nest in the reeds or grass.