tags: dancing bird, Wire-tailed manakin, Pipra filicauda, behavior, ornithology, birds, nature, streaming video
This streaming video records the dance of a male Wire-tailed manakin, Pipra filicauda, a lovely passerine species endemic to the lower areas near rivers in the rainforests of northeastern Peru, southeastern Colombia, eastern Ecuador and western Brazil [1:30]
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This totally made my day. I LOVE teh music they've put with it! I saw something similar on the PBS programme Nature on what looks like a different species of manakin bird ...that moonwalks!
There's going to be hell to pay when he finds out who put itching powder in his dust bath.
HI:
What's the bird that's calling in the background that sounds like an American Wigeon?
Gotta love dancing birds! That might be the Manakin calling?
HI:
Someone emailed me about the birds calling in the background. He heard the American Wigeon too! He als heard a Hermit Thrush and Green Heron. Who ever dubbed in the background birds needed South America field guides!!!
I want to be reincarnated as a Wire-tailed manakin.
Dancing birds are such fun. Love it.