Yungas manakin

Yungas manakin
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves
Order: Passeriformes
Family: Pipridae
Genus: Chiroxiphia
Species: C. boliviana
Binomial name
Chiroxiphia boliviana
Allen, 1889
Yungas manakin (Chiroxiphia boliviana)

The Yungas manakin (Chiroxiphia boliviana) is a species of bird in the Pipridae family. It closely resembles the blue-backed manakin, but unlike that species it has dull dark red legs and is found in humid highland forests in the Yungas of southeastern Peru and Bolivia.

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