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The life history of the Long-wattled Umbrellabird Cephalopterus penduliger in the Andean foothills of north-west Ecuador: leks, behaviour, ecology and conservation

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 May 2010

Olaf Jahn ,
Edwin E. Vargas Grefa  and
Karl-L. Schuchmann
Olaf Jahn
Affiliation:
Fundación Ecuatoriana de Estudios Ecológicos, EcoCiencia, Isla San Cristóbal 1523 e Isla Seymour, P.O. Box 17–12–257, Quito, Ecuador and Alexander Koenig Research Institute and Museum of Zoology, Research Group “Biology and Phylogeny of Tropical Birds”, Adenauerallee 160, D-53113 Bonn, Germany.
Edwin E. Vargas Grefa
Affiliation:
Fundación Ecuatoriana de Estudios Ecológicos, EcoCiencia, Isla San Cristóbal 1523 e Isla Seymour, P.O. Box 17–12–257, Quito, Ecuador.
Karl-L. Schuchmann
Affiliation:
Alexander Koenig Research Institute and Museum of Zoology, Research Group “Biology and Phylogeny of Tropical Birds”, Adenauerallee 160, D-53113 Bonn, Germany.
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The rare and threatened Long-wattled Umbrellabird Cephalopterus penduliger inhabits the canopy and mid-storey level of humid to wet foothill and montane forests (150–1,800 m)of the Andean slopes of south-west Colombia and western Ecuador. Here we report on male activity pattern and display behaviour observed at one of two leks recently discovered in the vicinity of Playa de Oro, Rio Santiago, Esmeraldas Province, north-west Ecuador. Courtship behaviour of C. penduliger is compared with the Central American and Amazonian congeners (Bare-necked Umbrellabird C. glabricollis and Amazonian Umbrellabird C. ornatus). The lek of C. penduliger was active during the whole study period (February 1997 to January 1998), but both lek structure and daytime activity pattern changed markedly within the observation period.

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Research Article
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Bird Conservation International , Volume 9 , Issue 1 , March 1999 , pp. 81 - 94
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Copyright © Birdlife International 1999

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