Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun The native name of several South American manakins: applied to sundry cotingine birds.
  • noun Any bird of the family Cotingidæ.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun (Zoöl.) A bird of the family Cotingidæ, including numerous bright-colored South American species; -- called also chatterers.

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  • noun Any of the neotropical passerine birds of the genus Cotinga

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun passerine bird of New World tropics

Etymologies

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From New Latin cotinga, from Old Tupi cutinga.

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Examples

  • Examples of seed dispersing birds are the hornbill, the toucan, the aracari, the cotinga, and some species of parrots.

    Frugivore Wikipedia 2009

  • Examples are buff-breasted tody-tyrant (Hemitriccus mirandae), white-winged cotinga (Xipholena atropurpurea), seven-colored tanager (Tangara fastuosa), and yellow-faced siskin (Carduelis yarrellii).

    Pernambuco interior forests 2008

  • Birds that may visit mangrove communities include Amazona autumnalis, scarlet macaw (Ara macao), green macaw (Ara ambigua), military macaw (A. militaris), snowy cotinga (Carpodectes nitidus), and several parrots, parakeets, and hummingbirds.

    Mosquitia-Nicaraguan Caribbean Coast mangroves 2007

  • Two endemic birds listed by IUCN as vulnerable are found in the mangroves of this ecoregion: the mangrove hummingbird (Amazilia boucardi) and the yellow-billed cotinga (Carpodectes antoniae).

    Moist Pacific Coast mangroves 2007

  • The latter was also a full-grown male cotinga, known to a few people in this world as the dark-breasted mourner (_Lipaugus simplex_).

    Edge of the Jungle William Beebe 1919

  • Sheer color alone is powerful enough, but when heightened by contrast, it becomes still more effective, and I seemed to have secured, with two barrels, a cotinga and its shadow.

    Edge of the Jungle William Beebe 1919

  • (Cab. and Hein.) 37 2 Monarch; _Anosia plexippus_ (Linné) 38 7 Red-breasted Blue Chatterer; _Cotinga cotinga_ Linné

    Edge of the Jungle William Beebe 1919

  • The most interesting birds he shot were a cotinga, brilliant turquoise-blue with a magenta-purple throat, and a big woodpecker, black above and cinnamon below with an entirely red head and neck.

    VIII. The River of Doubt 1914

  • The most interesting birds he shot were a cotinga, brilliant turquoise-blue with a magenta - purple throat, and a big woodpecker, black above and cinnamon below with an entirely red head and neck.

    Through the Brazilian Wilderness Theodore Roosevelt 1888

  • This cotinga is a solitary bird, and utters only a monotonous whistle, which sounds like _quet_.

    The Western World Picturesque Sketches of Nature and Natural History in North and South America William Henry Giles Kingston 1847

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