How To Use Manakin In A Sentence
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Entire avian families, including cotingas, manakins, toucans, and ground antbirds, are essentially confined to the Neotropics, as are such unique species as screamers, trumpeters, sunbittern, hoatzin, and boat-billed heron.
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Comparative approaches for examining processes of sexual selection have been applied to a variety of systems including spiders, mites, swordtail fish, guppies, frogs, manakins, and house finches.
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They ranged from party-colored macaws, green parrots, and big gregarious cuckoos down to a brilliant green-and-chestnut kingfisher, five and a quarter inches long, and a tiny orange-and - green manakin, smaller than any bird I have ever seen except a hummer.
Through the Brazilian Wilderness
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Like many other manakins, adult males develop a brilliant and conspicuous plumage, establish an arena, and display to females.
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Carved from a dense forest of hardwoods and pines in the southwest Richmond, Va., suburb of Manakin-Sabot, most of Kinloch's holes are unusually broad.
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There was also a tiny soft-tailed woodpecker, no larger than a kinglet; a queer humming-bird with a slightly flexible bill; and many species of ant-thrush, tanager, manakin, and tody.
VII. With a Mule Train Across Nhambiquara Land
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The noise-making skill of manakins first came to the attention of naturalists in the 1800's.
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But lance-tailed manakin males cooperate in spectacular courtship displays with unrelated partners.
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The prettiest bird was a tiny manakin, coal-black, with a red-and-orange head.
VI. Through the Highland Wilderness of Western Brazil
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Each time the manakin produced a loud, clear tone that sounded as if it came from a violin.
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Other important birds are lesser seed-finch (Oryzoborus angolensis), ruddy-breasted seedeater (Sporaphila minuta), slate-colored seedeater (Sporophila schistacea), Guianan piculet (Picumnus minutissimus), blood-coloured woodpecker (Veniliornis sanguineus), and the crimson-hooded manakin (Pipra aureola).
Paramaribo swamp forests
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Adult male manakins are more sedentary than females and young males and may not disperse seeds as widely as females and young males.
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Thus, both manakins and plants profit from the interaction.
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Comparative approaches for examining processes of sexual selection have been applied to a variety of systems including spiders, mites, swordtail fish, guppies, frogs, manakins, and house finches.
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Gradually his ear became accustomed to the roar, and, above its mighty undertone, he could hear the whisper of the wind among the shrubs, and the hum of myriad insects; while the rock manakin, with its saffron plumage, flitted before him from stone to stone, calling cheerily, and seeming to lead him on.
Westward Ho!
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Ah, the blowpipe is a wonderful instrument; it will serve to kill anything, from a big tapir or a fierce jaguar or puma, down to the smallest manakin or humming-bird.
The Wanderers Adventures in the Wilds of Trinidad and Orinoco
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The golden-winged manakin -- another tribe -- are often seen perched in large flocks on the summits of the trees, or rapidly moving amid the branches in search of the rich fruits and numerous insects found in the gapo forests.
The Western World Picturesque Sketches of Nature and Natural History in North and South America
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They ranged from party-colored macaws, green parrots, and big gregarious cuckoos down to a brilliant green-and-chestnut kingfisher, five and a quarter inches long, and a tiny orange-and-green manakin, smaller than any bird I have ever seen except a hummer.
V. Up the River of Tapirs
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Watch for manakins, trogons, hawks, and other forest species.
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But rather than hovering for a drink, manakins generate finger-snap clicks to entice females.
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The film captures monkeys in the Nariva wetlands, golden tree frogs housed in bromeliad plants and blue-backed manakins in Tobago.
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Pairs of male lance-tailed manakins perform complex dances of ‘leapfrog’ stunts and flight displays to woo interested females.
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Levey found that smaller seed size resulted in an increase in number of fruits that could be eaten by manakins, which mainly swallow fruit whole.
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The most unusual plumage and wing modifications among the 40 or so species of manakins belong to the club-winged manakin, Bostwick told the group.
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The bird example is the Araripe's manakin (Antilophia bokermanni), a wonderful bird recently discovered on the forest slopes of Chapada do Araripe.
Caatinga Enclaves moist forests
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The manakins vibrate their wings at more than 100 cycles per second, twice the speed of hummingbirds.
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Ironically, a road-paving team spotted the golden-crowned manakin in the heart of the rain forest of Brazil.
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When the dominant male at a manakin lek dies, one of the subordinate males who assisted him inherits his position; ditto for the subordinate foundresses at a wasp nest.
Behe Disproves Irreducible Complexity - The Panda's Thumb
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Males of over half of the species of manakins produce startling sounds with their wings during courtship displays.
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Male golden-collared manakins clear leaf litter from the ground to form courts, which they then use as arenas for intense courtship displays.
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Restricted foraging time due to inclement weather and the resultant decrease in food intake is believed to influence hypothermia in manakins and may induce torpor in hummingbirds.
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Other species, such as thrushes and manakins, usually regurgitate the largest seeds they ingest.
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Other avifauna restricted to this ecoregion include Serra do Mar tyrant-manakin (Neopelma chrysolophum), Cipó canastero (EN) (Asthenes luizae), and Brasília tapaculo (VU) (Scytalopus novacapitalis).
Campos Rupestres montane savanna
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Recently, he wrote about a little bird called a manakin.
Moonwalking bird
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For example, several species of birds such as bowerbirds, widowbirds, cock-of-the-rocks, birds of paradise, peacock-pheasants, and manakins build or clear courts used as arenas during elaborate courtship displays to females.
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Also, many manakins have delayed plumage maturation.
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Instead of fighting over females, pairs of male lance-tailed manakins team up to court prospective mates.
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Imagine driving to Manakin - Sabot , outside of Richmond , Virginia , to see Jerry Parker's office in 1994.
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The great and good William McKinley, the patient, praying President, was most bitterly assailed, his motives most bitterly impunged and he was called "the puppet president," "the tool," "the manakin.
Life of Charles T. Walker, D.D., ("The Black Spurgeon.") Pastor Mt. Olivet Baptist Church, New York City
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An interesting analogy may occur in some manakins in which males are smaller than females.
