Three-wattled Bellbird
Procnias tricarunculatus
Aves
VULNERABLE
Stats
- Lifespan
- 10-25 yrs
- Size
- Medium
- Diet
- Herbivore
- Activity
- Diurnal
- Social
- Solitary
- Biome
- Tropical rainforest
- Range
- Central America
- Movement
- Flight
- Breeding
- Egg-laying
- Defense
- Camouflage
- Status
- Vulnerable
About
The Three-wattled Bellbird is one of the loudest birds on Earth — the male's metallic, hammer-strike call can carry over a kilometre through the cloud forests of Central America. Males are unmistakable: a chestnut body, brilliant white head, and three long worm-like wattles dangling from the base of the bill.
Life cycle
- 1.eggA small clutch of speckled eggs is incubated in a cup nest, turned and kept warm by the parent.
- 2.hatchlingA pink, blind hatchling is fed by its parents in the nest, gaping its bill at every visit.
- 3.juvenileA feathered juvenile fledges from the nest, learning to fly and to forage close to its parents.
- 4.adultFully grown with adult plumage and song.
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Taxonomy
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Chordata
- Class
- Aves
- Order
- Passeriformes
- Family
- Cotingidae
- Genus
- Procnias
- Species
- Procnias tricarunculatus