The prettiest bird was a tiny manakin, coal-black, with a red-and-orange head.
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The curious black umbrella-bird is entirely confined to it, as is also the little bristle-tailed manakin.
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We found no significant correlations between manakin parasite lineage turnover and both manakin species turnover and geographic distance.
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We used molecular methods to screen 1343 individuals of 30 manakin species for the presence of parasites.
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We also found no evidence that manakin parasite lineage turnover among host species correlates with range overlap and genetic divergence among hosts.
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They are called after their colours, as the speckled manakin, the white-capped South American manakin, the purple-breasted, variegated, purple-throated, and rock manakins.
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Climate differences, species turnover in the larger bird community and parasite lineage turnover in non-manakin hosts did not correlate with manakin parasite lineage turnover.
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To preserve in our collections the fine tint of the plumage of a male and full-grown rock-manakin, it must not be exposed to the light.
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When I encounter one of these people some fine day in a hotel, I act like the birds, who see a manakin in a field.
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Bostwick suspected that the male manakin's sound was produced when its thick-tipped feather shafts rubbed over its ridged feathers, like a spoon over wooden slats.
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With feathers that resonate at precisely 1,500 hertz, the male club-winged manakin is perhaps the bird world's most perfectly tuned example of sexual selection.
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The birds I had caught were found to be manakins and tiger-birds.
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Among them were several species of trogons and little bristle-tailed manakins.
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Male manakins are able to lift their wings over their back and shake them rapidly, producing a loud mechanical sound.
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The plumes worn by the Guipunaves* are the most celebrated; being composed of the fine feathers of manakins and parrots.
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About the size of a pigeon, it belongs to the tribe of the diminutive manakins, most of which have beautiful and curious plumage.