The kinglet manakin or eastern striped manakin (''Machaeropterus regulus'') is a small South American species of

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bird in the manakin family

Pipridae The manakins are a family, Pipridae, of small suboscine passerine birds. The group contains 55 species distributed through the American tropics. The name is from Middle Dutch "little man" (also the source of the different bird name '' mannikin' ...

. It is found in the Atlantic Forest of south eastern

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. It was formerly considered

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with the

striolated manakin The striolated manakin or western striped manakin (''Machaeropterus striolatus'') is a small South American species of passerine bird in the family Pipridae. It is found in west and north west Amazonia. The striolated manakin was formerly consid ...

(''Machaeropterus striolatus'') with the

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"striped manakin". Males have a bright red crown, which the females lack. The kinglet manakin was described by the German zoologist

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in 1819 and given the

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''Pipra regulus''. The species is now placed in the

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Machaeropterus ''Machaeropterus'' is a genus of passerine birds in the manakin family Pipridae. They are found in the tropical forests of South America. Taxonomy The genus ''Machaeropterus'' was introduced by the French naturalist Charles Lucien Bonaparte in ...

'' that was introduced by the French naturalist

Charles Lucien Bonaparte Charles Lucien Jules Laurent Bonaparte, 2nd Prince of Canino and Musignano (24 May 1803 – 29 July 1857) was a French naturalist and ornithology, ornithologist, and a nephew of Napoleon. Lucien and his wife had twelve children, including Cardinal ...

in 1854. The species is

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. Like many other

manakin The manakins are a family, Pipridae, of small suboscine passerine birds. The group contains 55 species distributed through the American tropics. The name is from Middle Dutch "little man" (also the source of the different bird name '' mannikin' ...

s, the males cluster in a lek to attract females. After

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, the females rear the chicks without the help of the males.

References

*Loiselle, Bette A., John G. Blake, Renata Durães, Brandt T. Ryder, and Wendy Tori. "Environmental and spatial segregation of leks among six co-occurring species of manakins (Pipridae) in eastern Ecuador." Auk, The (2007). BNet Research Center. Evergreen State College. 9 Nov. 200

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