Golden-headed Manakin #birbfest day 4.

Watercolor and colored pencils.

Tyrannides infraorder - round 1, section 2

Manakin (Pipridae) family - round 2

Manakin (Pipridae) family - round 1, section 2

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November 19, 2025 - Orange-bellied Manakin or Tepui Manakin (Lepidothrix suavissima)

These manakins are found in and around forests in parts of southern Venezuela, extreme northern Brazil, and Guyana. Foraging alone or in pairs, they eat small fruit and insects, plucking food items in short hovering flights. Little is known about their breeding behavior, though males perform rapid flight displays from thin, low branches.

Red-capped manakin (Ceratopipra mentalis)
By: Colin Vince
From: Keeping Softbilled Birds
1980

Just found out about a bird that can casually clap its wings 107 times per second. Like where in evolution they decided to just do that???

MANAKIN | nysaf

MANAKIN
Written by DAVE HARRIS
Directed by TAYLOR REYNOLDS​​

MANAKIN is a wedding story. But not just any wedding—this one brings together four generations for the union of Son and Daughter. Oh, this wedding is also a Satanic invocation. A raw, lyrical, darkly hilarious piece about intergenerational trauma, love in all its forms, ancient traditions and sacred rituals.

MANAKIN was awarded the 2024 Relentless Award by the American Playwriting Foundation (APF), which was founded in honor of Philip Seymour Hoffman’s relentless support of truth in theater; MANAKIN was featured in APF’s 2025 Relentless Reading Series. 

MANAKIN was commissioned by Yale Repertory Theatre, New Haven CT. James Bundy, Artistic Director, Florie Seery, Managing Director with support from the Peter Shaffer Charitable Foundation.

Supported in partnership with the American Playwriting Foundation (Artistic Director, David Bar Katz).

​Saturday, July 26 at 6pm
Marist University, Poughkeepsie NY

toney goins is in this! here’s his bio:

TONEY GOINS (Son)*, a Philadelphia native, made a name for himself by winning local theater awards for Best Choreographer in 2012, ‘13, and '14. In 2018, he graduated from The Juilliard School for Drama where he received the Career Advancement Grant upon graduation. He made his New York theatre acting debut in the Off-Broadway production of TONI STONE at the Roundabout followed by a starring role in the off-Broadway production of EXCEPTION TO THE RULE directed by Miranda Haymon. Goins transitioned into the film and television world becoming a recurring regular on the ABC series FOR LIFE then working with the Russo Brothers in their film, CHERRY, before becoming a series regular on BILLIONS.  Goins plays the piano and drums, speaks Spanish, raps and writes.

We out here, stridulating off key

Pin-tailed Manakin (Ilicura militaris), male, family Pipridae, order Passeriformes, endemic to the Atlantic Coast of Brazil

photograph by Aisse Gaertner

Tyranneutes tyrant-manakin

Corapipo manakin

Manacus manakin

Red-capped Manakin, Moonwalk dance, Costa Rica

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April 12, 2025 - White-throated Manakin (Corapipo gutturalis)

Found in parts of Brazil, French Guiana, Guyana, Suriname, and Venezuela, these manakins live in rainforests. They eat small fruit and insects, usually capturing prey in short flights and frequently joining mixed-species flocks. Males perform courtship displays flying to and from large logs on the ground. Their small cup-shaped nests are constructed from moss and fungal strands bound with spiderwebs to branches in small trees. Females probably lay clutches of two eggs.

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Araripe Manakin (Antilophia bokermanni), male, family Pipridae, order Passeriformes, endemic to Brazil

ENDANGERED.

photograph by Ivan Cesar

photograph by AQUASIS

photograph by Thiago T. Silva

Rating birds day 8:

Saffron-crested Tyrant-Manakin

8/10

Gotta love birds with Mohawks!…….the eyes are throwing me off a bit though..sheesh!

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January 23, 2025 - Yellow-crowned Manakin or Yellow-crested Manakin (Heterocercus flavivertex)

These manakins are found in seasonally flooded forests and woodlands of eastern Colombia, southern Venezuela, and northwestern Brazil. They feed on small fruits and insects, often picking them from branches and leaves in short flights and sometimes foraging in mixed-species flocks. Breeding between February and May, males perform flight and courtship displays. Only one incomplete hanging cup-shaped nest has been found in the fork of a tree branch over a stream.

Band-tailed Manakin (Pipra fasciicauda), male, family Pipridae, order Passeriformes, Brazil

photograph by Glenn Bartley