Purple-breasted Cotinga
Cotinga cotinga(Linnaeus, C, 1766)
English (US) Purple-breasted Cotinga
The Purple-breasted Cotinga (Cotinga cotinga) is a bird species documented in the AviList Global Avian Checklist. On BirdGuides.io, 0 professional guides specialise in helping birdwatchers observe this species. It belongs to the family Cotingidae (Cotingas) in the order Passeriformes.
Range: eastern Colombia to southern Venezuela, the Guianas, and northern and eastern Amazonian BrazilRange summary from AviList, in English.
- Scientific name
- Cotinga cotinga
- Family
- Cotingidae (Cotingas)
- Order
- Passeriformes
- IUCN Red List
- Least Concern
- English (US)
- Purple-breasted Cotinga
- Described by
- (Linnaeus, C, 1766)
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Add Your ExpertiseTaxonomic history
- First described as
- [Ampelis] Cotinga
- Described by
- (Linnaeus, C, 1766)
- Type locality
- Brazil; restricted to vicinity of Belem, Para, by Pinto, 1944, Cat. Aves Brasil (Publ. Dept. Zool., Sao Paulo), pt. 2, p. 9.
- Original description
- Systema Naturæ. Editio duodecima reformata. Tomus I [part 1] p.298
Nomenclatural data from the AviList checklist, quoted in the language of the original sources.
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Snowy Cotinga
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Blue Cotinga
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Plum-throated Cotinga
Cotinga maynana
Banded Cotinga
Cotinga maculata
Spangled Cotinga
Cotinga cayana
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White Bellbird
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Bearded Bellbird
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Bare-throated Bellbird
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