Critically Endangered
Banded Cotinga
Cotinga maculata
Banded Cotinga is a perching bird in the family Cotingidae (order Passeriformes) — Cotinga maculata, recorded as Critically Endangered.
Appearance
Females are a dull brown with some white mottling.
Birds are around 20 cm long, and males are a bright blue with a black spotted back.
Range and habitat
It most likely once occurred in Rio de Janeiro and Espírito Santo, but has since been extirpated. It is endemic to southeastern Brazil. Its natural habitat is tropical moist lowland forests.
Pins are Wikidata “endemic to” fields. Orange dots, when present, are GBIF occurrence tiles — survey bias included.
Diet and breeding
It inhabits the canopy of the lowland Atlantic forest, and has a diet of seeds, berries, especially from Byrsonima sericea and ficuses, fruit, caterpillars, and other insects. The banded cotinga is not migratory and its nest is a simple cup.
In crisis
It is threatened by habitat loss as its population is estimated to number between 250 and 999 mature individuals. The greatest threat to the banded cotinga's survival is deforestation. Continued habitat fragmentation has also complicated matters, sending populations into a sharp decline.
CITES lists this taxon on Appendix I. Confirm the current appendix on the CITES checklist.
Banded Cotinga is Critically Endangered on this catalog because that is the IUCN category stored on Wikidata. Confirm the official criteria and any later count on iucnredlist.org.
Sources
Written for this catalog from the English Wikipedia article on Banded Cotinga, Wikidata item Q1086548. Family and order context is original field-guide writing about the group, not a copied assessment of this one species. Wikipedia text is CC BY-SA. Not an IUCN assessment. Counts, when quoted, can change — confirm them on the recovery programme and on iucnredlist.org.
