Scarlet fruit-eater [2] ( lat. Gymnoderus foetidus ) is a South American species of passerine birds from the family of cotingids ( Cotingidae ), distinguished into the monotypic genus of scorpion-eaters ( Gymnoderus ). Birds live in tropical and subtropical humid low-lying and marshy forests, as well as in wetlands near streams, rivers, rivers and freshwater lakes of the Amazonian lowlands and drainage of the upper Orinoco River - from southeast Colombia (including north from the beginning of the Andean ridge to the east Meta ), the south of Venezuela ( Amasonas ) and Guiana south to the east of Ecuador , the east of Peru , Brazil and Bolivia [3] [1] . The body length of males is 38 cm, females - 36 cm [4] . Birds eat fruit. Usually birds are found singly, flying high above rivers or forests [4] .
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| Scientific classification |
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| No rank : | Bilateral symmetrical |
| Suborder : | Screaming passerines |
| Infrastructure : | Tyrannides |
| Gender: | Foam-eater ( Gymnoderus E. Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire , 1809 ) |
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| International scientific name |
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Gymnoderus foetidus ( Linnaeus , 1758 ) |
| Synonyms |
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- Gracula foetida Linnaeus, 1758 [1]
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| Security status |
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Least ConcernedIUCN 3.1 Least Concern : 22700916 |
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