Plum-throated Cotinga Cotinga maynana Scientific name definitions

The Plum-throated Cotinga inhabits lowland tropical forests across central and western Amazonia, and shares many features common to the rest of the Blue Cotingas (Cotinga genus). Like the rest of its cogeners, Banded Cotingas are strongly sexually dimorphic, with males sporting bold blue, purple, and black plumage in stark contrast to the dull browns of the females. The male Plum-throated Cotinga, however, shows a much more uniform turquoise-blue appearance with less black markings than the others. As in all Blue Cotingas, the males have modified inner primaries which produce audible mechanical wing sounds in flight. Also like other Cotinga, Plum-throated Cotingas are most frequently spotted on high exposed perches or around fruiting trees. They can often be found foraging alongside Spangled Cotingas (C. cayana), with which they share significant sympatry; however, while the latter is mostly restricted to terra firme, the Plum-throated can be found both there and even more often in the seasonally flooded forests of the várzea.