Listen to the Red-crested cotinga
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About the Red-crested cotinga
The Red-crested cotinga is a bird in the family Cotingidae (order Passeriformes). Its conservation status on the IUCN Red List is “least concern”.
What does the Red-crested cotinga sound like?
Bird vocalisations are usually divided into songs – longer, often complex phrases used to defend territory and attract mates, sung mostly by males in the breeding season – and calls: short, simple sounds for contact, alarm, begging or flight.
The recordings here are labelled as song. Listen for differences in rhythm, pitch and repetition – the spectrum display makes it easy to see whether a sound is a pure whistle (a thin line), a harsh call (a broad band) or a trill (rapid repeated marks).
From Wikipedia
The red-crested cotinga (Ampelion rubrocristatus) is a species of bird in the family Cotingidae. It is found in Bolivia, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, and Venezuela.
More from the family Cotingidae
Andean cock-of-the-rock
Rupicola peruvianus
Guianan cock-of-the-rock
Rupicola rupicola
Amazonian umbrellabird
Cephalopterus ornatus
Screaming piha
Lipaugus vociferans
Capuchinbird
Perissocephalus tricolor
Scaled fruiteater
Ampelioides tschudii
Long-wattled umbrellabird
Cephalopterus penduliger
Rufous piha
Lipaugus unirufus
Black-necked red cotinga
Phoenicircus nigricollis
Purple-throated cotinga
Porphyrolaema porphyrolaema
Orange-breasted fruiteater
Pipreola jucunda
Dusky piha
Lipaugus fuscocinereus
Frequently asked questions
What does a Red-crested cotinga sound like?
You can hear 1 recording of the Red-crested cotinga on this page, including its song. Bird vocalisations are usually divided into songs – longer, often complex phrases used to defend territory and attract mates, sung mostly by males in the breeding season – and calls: short, simple sounds for contact, alarm, begging or flight.
Is the Red-crested cotinga endangered?
The IUCN Red List classifies the Red-crested cotinga as “least concern”.
What family does the Red-crested cotinga belong to?
The Red-crested cotinga (Ampelion rubrocristatus) belongs to the family Cotingidae in the order Passeriformes.
Sources & credits
- Song · Pichincha: Loma Yanayacu Polylepis forest, Volcán… by Niels Krabbe – CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons
- Wikidata Q1300646 – CC0
- Wikipedia: Red-crested cotinga – CC BY-SA 4.0
- Photo by Aves y Conservación/NBII Image Gallery – Public domain