Collared shrubby pine ( Latin: Lipaugus streptophorus ) is a bird of the Cating family, one of 9 species of shrike pine. The species was first described by scientists Salvin and Godman in 1884. This is a small bird about the size of a sparrow. The beak is short and sharp, the head is round. The main color of the plumage is dark gray, the abdomen is lighter, the bottom of the tail and throat are bright red-purple. Due to the special coloration of the neck, it got its name "collar". However, only males have this throat color. The basis of the diet is small insects and larvae. Inhabits the forests growing in the Guiana Highlands in southeastern Venezuela, in western Guyana and in northern Brazil.
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| No rank : | Bilateral symmetrical |
| Suborder : | Screaming passerines |
| Infrastructure : | Tyrannides |
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Lipaugus streptophorus
( Salvin & Godman , 1884) |
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Least ConcernedIUCN 3.1 Least Concern : 22700865 |
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The species name of the collar shrivel [1] - streptophorus in Latin means collar; the word itself is formed from two Greek words: streptos - a collar and pherō - to wear [2] .
A small bird with a body length of about 22 cm. The plumage color of males and females is different . The males are gray in color with a brightly colored undertail and a strip on the neck in the form of a collar; the upper body is darker, the bottom is lighter [3] .
Females begin to build a nest in spring. The assembly of material for the nest begins in April [3] .
Collared shriveli firs feed on the fruits of plants (especially the family of melastomes ). Fruits pluck in flight. Insects are also present in the diet [3] .
Birds live in South America in 3 countries: southeast Venezuela , northern Brazil and western Guyana . They settle in the mountainous forests of the Guiana plateau , prefer the outskirts. Collar shrubs can be found at an altitude of 1000-1800 m [3] .
- ↑ Boehme, Flint, 1994 , p. 262.
- ↑ Jobling, 2010 , p. 367.
- ↑ 1 2 3 4 Handbook of the Birds of the World Alive .
- Boehme R. L. , Flint V. E. The Bilingual Dictionary of Animal Names. Birds. Latin, Russian, English, German, French / Ed. ed. Acad. V. E. Sokolova . - M .: Rus. lang., RUSSO, 1994. - 845 p. - 2030 copies. - ISBN 5-200-00643-0 .
- James A. Jobling. The Helm Dictionary of Scientific Bird Names. - London: A&C Black Publishers Ltd, 2010 .-- 432 p. - ISBN 978-1-4081-2501-4 .
