Cock of the rock bird fliing
We had come to see one of the greatest bird spectacles in the world: the courtship display of the Andean cock-of-the-rock. O ur guide unlocked the wooden door. For as dawn broke over the Manu cloud forest , in the heart of Peru, we were assembling on a wooden platform perched on the edge of the mountainside. We had come to see one of the greatest bird spectacles in the world: the courtship display of the Andean cock-of-the-rock Rupicola peruvianus. Cocks-of-the-rock note the pedantic plural are very striking birds indeed.


Guianan cock-of-the-rock
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Cock-of-the-rock | bird | Britannica
Yale University ornithologists Prof Richard Prum and Jacob Berv have mapped out the first large-scale evolutionary family tree for the Neotropical cotingas — some of the brightest, loudest, oddest-looking birds in the world. The Andean cock-of-the-rock Rupicola peruviana , a species in the family Cotingidae. There are more than 60 species of the cotingas, a highly diverse group of birds that make up the family Cotingidae. They are found in tropical and subtropical forests or forest edges of South and Central America.



Andean Cock-of-the-rock
The Andean Cock-of-the-rock , Rupicola peruviana is a spectacular, medium-sized passerine which is known to be pretty shy and not easily spotted. They emit a loud querulous "uankk? The species exhibits marked sexual dimorphism which means they can be visually sexed..





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