White-winged Cotinga

White-winged Pompadourkotinga ( Xipholena atropurpurea )

The White-winged Pompadourkotinga ( Xipholena atropurpurea ), also known as White-winged purple bird, is an indigenous to Brazil, strikingly patterned bird from the family of Cotinga ( Cotingidae ).

Description

It reaches a size of 19 centimeters. The male has a black and purple body. At the back of the back and rump plumage is colored pale. The tail is short. The wings are white with black tips to the feathers. The iris is whitish. The top is ash-gray in the female. At the top of a slightly indicated eye-streak can be seen. The darker wings are fringed white. The tail is dark colored. The throat is pale gray and the breast is whitish mottled dark. On the rest of the plumage is gray underside white. His voice is high.

Dissemination

Its occurrence is limited to 13 protected areas in the states of Paraiba ostbrasilianischen, Pernambuco, Alagoas, Sergipe, Bahia, Espirito Santo and Rio de Janeiro.

Way of life

Its habitat are primary lowland and adjacent foothills of the Atlantic rain forest, mostly in coastal forests. In the northern part of its range it occurs in dense primary forest, in front of more thinned forests and semi - deciduous forests. But he is also found in selectively beaten primary and secondary forests and in zersplitteten woodlots.

Its diet consists of fruits such as mulberries, mistletoe berries and laurels, as well as larvae of Lepidoptera and Orthoptera. He is alone mostly found on fruit trees, in Südbahia you have him, however, also been observed in company with chokes or the rare Southern Prachtkotinga.

The males show from November to February and the nests are built in October or November high in a tree fork.