About Cotinga maynana (Linnaeus, 1766)
The plum-throated cotinga (scientific name Cotinga maynana (Linnaeus, 1766)) measures 19 to 20.5 cm (7.5 to 8.1 in) in length and weighs approximately 70 g (2.5 oz). The species shows dramatic sexual dimorphism. Adult males are mostly a shiny turquoise-blue color, with an eponymous plum-purple patch on the throat. Their remiges are black, with a large white patch on the underside and wide blue edges toward the end; when folded, the wings appear mostly blue. Their rectrices are blackish with wide blue edges, and like the wings, the tail appears blue when folded. Scattered purple patches mark the male's underparts, and their undertail coverts are blackish. Adult females have dark grayish brown upperparts, with fawn-colored edges on each feather. The female's throat is fawn, and the breast is also fawn with darker scaly markings. The female's belly and undertail coverts are cinnamon-brown with darker mottling. Both sexes have a pale to darker yellow iris, a gray to blackish bill with a slightly hooked tip, and gray to blackish legs and feet. Immature birds of both sexes resemble adult females. The plum-throated cotinga is native to the upper Amazon Basin. Its approximate range covers the southeastern third of Colombia, the eastern third of Ecuador, eastern Peru, far northern Bolivia, and Brazil east to roughly a line running from Mato Grosso do Sul north to Tocantins. It lives in humid lowland rainforest, most commonly in várzea, and less often in terra firme; it appears to favor terra firme within Colombia. In terms of elevation, it is found up to 700 m (2,300 ft) in Colombia and Ecuador, and locally up to 1,000 m (3,300 ft) in Peru.
