Wire-tailed Manakins of Tiputini - Ecuador

This video is meant to showcase display behaviors of Wire-tailed Manakins (Pipra filicauda) at Tiputini Biodiversity Station, which is adjacent to Yasuni National Park in the Ecuadorian Amazon. I shot this footage while working on Dr. Thomas Brandt Ryder's long-term project studying these Manakins. Most of the Manakins in this video are fitted with color bands, which are used for identification of individuals as part of the project. Many of them also are fitted with a long radio tag that you will see protruding from their tail. This tag is used to track social interactions using radio telemetry receivers set up in the Manakin territories.

Thanks to...
-Tiputini Biodiversity Station
http://www.usfq.edu.ec/programas_academicos/Tiputini/Paginas/About-us.aspx
http://www.bu.edu/cecb/tiputini/

-Smithsonian Migratory Bird Center
https://nationalzoo.si.edu/scbi/migratorybirds/

-Petridish.org
-National Science Foundation

Also thanks to Diego Mosquera and Gabby Vinueza for accommodating us so well at Tiputini.

Finally, thanks to Dr. Thomas Brandt Ryder, Ben Vernasco, Camilo Alfonso, and Sean Campbell for finding Manakin display perches for me to film.

Filmed entirely using a Sony DSC-HX9V point-and-shoot.

Видео Wire-tailed Manakins of Tiputini - Ecuador канала Tim Forrester