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Donacobius

Donacobius atricapilla

Classification

Class
Aves

The black-capped donacobius (Donacobius atricapilla) is a conspicuous, vocal South American bird and the only bird in the genus Donacobius and family Donacobiidae. It is distributed across the northern half of South America. Taxonomy In 1760 the French zoologist Mathurin Jacques Brisson included a description of the black-capped donacobius in his Ornithologie based on a specimen that he mistakenly believed had been collected from the Cape of Good Hope in South Africa.

Distribution

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Countries in the Picchu catalog
Brazil · 16,945Peru · 6,294Germany · 1