Purple-throated Fruitcrow

Purpurbrustkotinga ♂

The Purpurbrustkotinga ( Querula purpurata ) is a species of passerine bird in the family jewelry birds. The bird is also called Pioho.

Features

The 28 cm long Purpurbrustkotinga is a relatively large bird with black plumage jewelry, long, rounded wings and a wide beak. The male has a throat plate from prolonged purple feathers.

Occurrence

The bird inhabits the upper floors of trees tropical or subtropical rain forests in Costa Rica, Panama, and in the northern parts of South America to northern Bolivia and the Amazon Basin in Brazil.

Behavior

The bird lives in small family groups and closes, especially when foraging, mixed crews on. The diet consists of fruit and insects.

Reproduction

To Balz several males get together and shout in a treetop, teeter his tail and flapping their wings. The purple-violet throat plate is fluffed during Balzdarbietung. In a flat, built of twigs cup nest in the treetops, the female lays a single egg and incubated it alone. In the rearing of the young bird the other members of the family unit to help with.