Endangered
Apolo cotinga
Phibalura boliviana
The Apolo cotinga or palkachupa cotinga is a passerine bird in the family Cotingidae.
Appearance
The sexes have different plumage though both have the eponymous long divided tail. Adult females have a mottled black and gray forehead, a pale gray to grayish brown crown with a usually concealed dull red streak in the middle. Their nape is blackish with broken white bars.
The Apolo cotinga is about 18 to 20 cm (7.1 to 7.9 in) long.
Range and habitat
The Apolo cotinga is found only the vicinity of Apolo in western Bolivia. It inhabits the eastern foothills of the Andes in semi-humid forest, savanna, and forest fragments between 1,300 and 2,040 m (4,300 and 6,700 ft).
Pins are Wikidata “endemic to” fields. Orange dots, when present, are GBIF occurrence tiles — survey bias included.
Diet and breeding
The Apolo cotinga feeds mostly on fruit and also includes small numbers of insects in its diet. It sometimes forages in small flocks, and mostly in the forest's canopy but sometimes much nearer the ground.
The Apolo cotinga breeds between September and March. Both sexes build the nest, a shallow cup made mostly of lichens with a few twigs included that is typically placed in the fork of a branch or on a wide horizontal branch.
In crisis
Apolo cotinga 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 Apolo cotinga, Wikidata item Q6074193. 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.
