Green-and-black Fruiteater

Goldbandkotinga ( Pipreola riefferii )

The Goldbandkotinga ( Pipreola riefferii ), sometimes also called Green back jewelry bird, a species of bird in the family jewelry birds ( Cotingidae ). The species has a large distribution area, the South American countries of Venezuela, Colombia, Ecuador and Peru includes. The stock is assessed by the IUCN as endangered not (Least Concern ).

Features

The Goldbandkotinga reaches a body length of about 18 to 18.5 centimeters. The beak and legs are reddish orange. The entire head, throat and chest are colored black in the male. The Kehllatz and neck have a thin yellow strips. The top is bright green moss. There are white speckles on the screen spring. The underside is predominantly green crisscrossed with more or less green spots and stripes. The female is similar, but has a green head. In addition, the yellow frame is missing on Kehllatz. In the back of the bottom are clear green speckles and stripes find.

Behavior

The bird sits mostly quiet and unobtrusive in pairs or small groups of three to six fellows in the branches. Move away the other dogs, so he follows them often hopping through ground vegetation ranging in the middle shrub layers. He particularly liked to pluck fruits that he vertiligt both sitting in hover.

Distribution and habitat

One usually finds the Goldbandkotinga at altitudes 1700-2900 meters. Exception is the Cerro Mongus in the province of Carchi in northeastern Ecuador where the bird was observed at 3300 meters altitude. It occurs on both slopes of the Andes in the temperate and subtropical zones.

Subspecies

So far, six subspecies are known, which differ mainly by their coloring.

• Pipreola riefferii melanolaema ( PL Sclater, 1856) - comes in the mountains of the North and Northwest of Venezuela in the south of the state of Lara, Táchira and southern and central Aragua, Miranda east as before.
• Pipreola riefferii riefferii ( Boissonneau, 1840) - National Park Perijá on the border of Kulumbien and Venezuela, western Venezuela in the western part of Táchira, Eastern & Central Andes of Colombia.
• Pipreola riefferii occidentalis ( Chapman, 1914) - Western Andes of Colombia and on the western slopes of Ecuador.
• Pipreola riefferii confusa (JT Room, 1936) - eastern Andes of Ecuador and extreme northern Peru in the western Amazon region.
• Pipreola riefferii chachapoyas ( Hellmayr, 1915) - northern Peru east of the Marañón River in the Amazon regions and San Martín.
• Pipreola riefferii tallmanorum ( O'Neill & Parker, 1981) - Cordillera de Carpish in Departamento de Huanuco in central Peru.

Naming

In 1830 and 1840 the Dutch Riéffer traveled through Colombia. Probably in 1838 or 1839 he sent Skins to Europe. The delivery was known Auguste Boissonneau, Frederic de Lafresnaye, Marc Athanase Parfait Œillet Des Murs and Jules Bourcier. They described many of the bellows in the magazines Revue Zoological 'and' Revue et Magazin '. Other bellows Riéffers Coenraad Jacob Temminck went to. It is this Temminck advised Boissonneau to designate the Papageitangare ( Chlorornis riefferii ) to Riéffer. Boissonneau followed this advice and in addition named the Goldbandkotinga under the name Ampelis riefferii. Only later the bird was classified under the genus Pipreola.