Per Cornell Lab's Birds of the World website, the species is also sometimes referred to as a chestnut mannikin or black-headed munia. The small, finch-like bird has chestnut-brown plumage with a ...

Charles Darwin sized up the manakin in The Descent of Man. In his 1871 account of the bird, he wrote: “The diversity of the sounds … and the diversity of the means for producing such ...

In South America, the blue manakin bird is known for its sophisticated group choreography. The males practice relentlessly, tirelessly repeating complex movements which they then present to a ...