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Antilophia
''Chiroxiphia'' is one of several genera of manakins, small song birds of South and Central America. The male plumage is a striking combination of black and bright blue. The crown is red, except in the yellow-crowned ''C. pareola regina''. Females are comparably dull olive-greenish overall. Juveniles of both sexes resemble the adult female. As the male plumage takes several years to complete, individuals showing a level of intermediacy between full adult male and female-like juveniles are commonly seen (in particular female-plumaged birds with red, or yellow in ''C. pareola regina'', crowns). Manakins of the genus ''Chiroxiphia'' have an unusual mating system, based on female mate choice. In order to mate successfully, males have to form partnerships with another male. The two males co-operate in an elaborate courtship dance, and sing a joint song (called a ''duet'') at one of many traditionally fixed mating sites; the area where mating takes place can be described as an explod ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Helmeted Manakin
The helmeted manakin (''Chiroxiphia galeata'') is a species of small passerine bird in the manakin family Manakin, Pipridae. Unlike most manakins, a family associated with tropical rainforests, the helmeted manakin inhabits the seasonally dry Cerrado savanna of Central Brazil. Taxonomy The helmeted manakin was species description, formally described in 1823 by the German naturalist Hinrich Lichtenstein from specimens collected near São Paulo in Brazil. He coined the binomial name ''Pipra galeata''. The helmeted manakin was placed together with the critically endangered Araripe manakin in the genus ''Antilophia'' that was introduced by Ludwig Reichenbach in 1850. ''Antilophia'' were considered very closely related to ''Chiroxiphia'', another genus of manakin which inhabit rainforests in Central and South America, and there is possible hybridization between them. Therefore, the two species were transferred to the genus ''Chiroxiphia''. The helmeted manakin is monotypic: no subsp ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chiroxiphia Galeata
The helmeted manakin (''Chiroxiphia galeata'') is a species of small passerine bird in the manakin family Pipridae. Unlike most manakins, a family associated with tropical rainforests, the helmeted manakin inhabits the seasonally dry Cerrado savanna of Central Brazil. Taxonomy The helmeted manakin was formally described in 1823 by the German naturalist Hinrich Lichtenstein from specimens collected near São Paulo in Brazil. He coined the binomial name ''Pipra galeata''. The helmeted manakin was placed together with the critically endangered Araripe manakin in the genus ''Antilophia'' that was introduced by Ludwig Reichenbach in 1850. ''Antilophia'' were considered very closely related to ''Chiroxiphia'', another genus of manakin which inhabit rainforests in Central and South America, and there is possible hybridization between them. Therefore, the two species were transferred to the genus ''Chiroxiphia''. The helmeted manakin is monotypic: no subspecies are recognised. Des ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Helmeted Manakin
The helmeted manakin (''Chiroxiphia galeata'') is a species of small passerine bird in the manakin family Manakin, Pipridae. Unlike most manakins, a family associated with tropical rainforests, the helmeted manakin inhabits the seasonally dry Cerrado savanna of Central Brazil. Taxonomy The helmeted manakin was species description, formally described in 1823 by the German naturalist Hinrich Lichtenstein from specimens collected near São Paulo in Brazil. He coined the binomial name ''Pipra galeata''. The helmeted manakin was placed together with the critically endangered Araripe manakin in the genus ''Antilophia'' that was introduced by Ludwig Reichenbach in 1850. ''Antilophia'' were considered very closely related to ''Chiroxiphia'', another genus of manakin which inhabit rainforests in Central and South America, and there is possible hybridization between them. Therefore, the two species were transferred to the genus ''Chiroxiphia''. The helmeted manakin is monotypic: no subsp ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Araripe Manakin
The Araripe manakin (''Chiroxiphia bokermanni'') is a species of bird from the family of manakins (Pipridae). It was discovered in 1996 and scientifically described in 1998. The species epithet commemorates Brazilian zoologist and wildlife filmmaker Werner Bokermann, who died in 1995. Because of its helmet-like crown it has received the Portuguese name ''soldadinho-do-araripe'' which means "''little soldier of Araripe''". This name also associates it with the related, but more widespread, helmeted manakin (''Chiroxiphia galeata''), which is known simply as the ''soldadinho''. Description As typical of most manakins, males and females have a strong sexual dimorphism in the colours of the plumage. As in the helmeted manakin, it is a relatively large and long-tailed manakin, with a total length of c. . The strikingly patterned males have predominantly white plumage. With the exception of the white little wings coverts, the wings are black as the tail. From the frontal tuft, over t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chiroxiphia Linearis
''Chiroxiphia'' is one of several genus, genera of manakins, small song birds of South America, South and Central America. The male plumage is a striking combination of black and bright blue. The crown is red, except in the yellow-crowned ''C. pareola regina''. Females are comparably dull olive-greenish overall. Juveniles of both sexes resemble the adult female. As the male plumage takes several years to complete, individuals showing a level of intermediacy between full adult male and female-like juveniles are commonly seen (in particular female-plumaged birds with red, or yellow in ''C. pareola regina'', crowns). Manakins of the genus ''Chiroxiphia'' have an unusual mating system, based on female mate choice. In order to mate successfully, males have to form partnerships with another male. The two males co-operate in an elaborate courtship dance, and sing a joint bird song, song (called a ''duet'') at one of many traditionally fixed mating sites; the area where mating takes pla ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Antilophia Galeata -Reserva Ambiental, Piraju, Sao Paulo, Brasil -male-8 (1)
''Chiroxiphia'' is one of several genera of manakins, small song birds of South and Central America. The male plumage is a striking combination of black and bright blue. The crown is red, except in the yellow-crowned ''C. pareola regina''. Females are comparably dull olive-greenish overall. Juveniles of both sexes resemble the adult female. As the male plumage takes several years to complete, individuals showing a level of intermediacy between full adult male and female-like juveniles are commonly seen (in particular female-plumaged birds with red, or yellow in ''C. pareola regina'', crowns). Manakins of the genus ''Chiroxiphia'' have an unusual mating system, based on female mate choice. In order to mate successfully, males have to form partnerships with another male. The two males co-operate in an elaborate courtship dance, and sing a joint song (called a ''duet'') at one of many traditionally fixed mating sites; the area where mating takes place can be described as an explod ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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''). Description Manakins range in size from and in weight from . Species in the genus ''Tyranneutes'' are the smallest manakins, those in the genus '' Antilophia'' are believed to be the largest (since the genus ''Schiffornis'' are no longer considered manakins). They are compact stubby birds with short tails, broad and rounded wings, and big heads. The bill is short and has a wide gap. Females and first-year males have dull green plumage; most species are sexually dichromatic in their plumage, the males being mostly black with striking colours in patches, and in some species having long, decorative tail or crown feathers or erectile throat feathers. In some species, males from two to four years old have a distinctive subadult plumage. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ludwig Reichenbach
Heinrich Gottlieb Ludwig Reichenbach (8 January 1793 – 17 March 1879) was a German botanist, ornithologist and illustrator. It was he who first requested Leopold and Rudolf Blaschka, Leopold Blaschka to make a set of glass marine invertebrate models for scientific education and museum showcasing, the successful commission giving rise to the creation of the Blaschkas' Glass sea creatures and, subsequently and indirectly, the more famous Glass Flowers. Early life Born in Leipzig and the son of Johann Friedrich Jakob Reichenbach (the author in 1818 of the first Greek-German dictionary) Reichenbach studied medicine and natural science at the University of Leipzig in 1810, becoming a professor and, eight years later in 1818, an instructor. In 1820, he was appointed the director of the Dresden natural history museum and a professor at the Surgical-Medical Academy in Dresden, where he remained for many years. Together with Carl Friedrich Heinrich Schubert he started in 1822 to edit and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ancient Greek
Ancient Greek (, ; ) includes the forms of the Greek language used in ancient Greece and the classical antiquity, ancient world from around 1500 BC to 300 BC. It is often roughly divided into the following periods: Mycenaean Greek (), Greek Dark Ages, Dark Ages (), the Archaic Greece, Archaic or Homeric Greek, Homeric period (), and the Classical Greece, Classical period (). Ancient Greek was the language of Homer and of fifth-century Athens, fifth-century Athenian historians, playwrights, and Ancient Greek philosophy, philosophers. It has contributed many words to English vocabulary and has been a standard subject of study in educational institutions of the Western world since the Renaissance. This article primarily contains information about the Homeric Greek, Epic and Classical periods of the language, which are the best-attested periods and considered most typical of Ancient Greek. From the Hellenistic period (), Ancient Greek was followed by Koine Greek, which is regar ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
