Endangered
Bare-necked Umbrellabird
Cephalopterus glabricollis
Bare-necked Umbrellabird is a perching bird in the family Cotingidae (order Passeriformes) — Cephalopterus glabricollis, recorded as Endangered.
The perching bird
The males are larger than the females, being 41 cm (16 in) in length and weighing 450 g (16 oz), compared to the females' 36 cm (14 in) and 320 g (11 oz).
Range and habitat
The bare-necked umbrellabird is found in Panama, Costa Rica, and southern Nicaragua. It inhabits the subcanopy to upper understory of primary forest throughout its range, although some birds have been seen foraging in secondary forest. It can also be found in areas with dense understory and near fruiting trees.
Pins are Wikidata “endemic to” fields. Orange dots, when present, are GBIF occurrence tiles — survey bias included.
Diet and breeding
It has also been known to feed on lizards, frogs, insects and larvae. Breeding occurs between March and June in Costa Rica and between April and September in Panama.
Bare-necked umbrellabirds live only in forests and their diet consists mainly of fruits.
In crisis
It is threatened by habitat loss.
Bare-necked Umbrellabird is 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 Bare-necked Umbrellabird, Wikidata item Q671212. 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.
