Hooded Berryeater (Carpornis cucullata) | Photos and ID

LCLeast ConcernEndemicFruit

ForestCup nestMedium · 74 g

Hooded Berryeater (Carpornis cucullata), photo 1 — Photo: Marcelo Schmidt Roberti · CC BY 4.0

Hooded Berryeater (Carpornis cucullata), photo 2 — Photo: Fernando Sessegolo · CC0

Hooded Berryeater (Carpornis cucullata), photo 3 — Photo: Bruno Luka de Souza Bambirra Silveira · CC BY 4.0

Hooded Berryeater (Carpornis cucullata), photo 4 — Photo: Bruno Luka de Souza Bambirra Silveira · CC BY 4.0

Hooded Berryeater (Carpornis cucullata), photo 5 — Photo: Arthur Bruck · CC BY 4.0

Hooded Berryeater (Carpornis cucullata), photo 6 — Photo: Arthur Bruck · CC BY 4.0

Hooded Berryeater (Carpornis cucullata), photo 8 — Photo: Bruno Luka de Souza Bambirra Silveira · CC BY 4.0

Hooded Berryeater (Carpornis cucullata), photo 9 — Photo: Bruno Luka de Souza Bambirra Silveira · CC BY 4.0

Hooded Berryeater (Carpornis cucullata), photo 10 — Photo: Bruno Luka de Souza Bambirra Silveira · CC BY 4.0

ID tip

The hooded berryeater is 22.5 to 25 cm (8.9 to 9.8 in) long and weighs about 67 to 85 g (2.4 to 3.0 oz). The sexes have similar plumage. Adult males have an entirely black head, neck, and upper breast with a thin yellow "collar" around the sides and back of the neck. Their back is chestnut-tinged brown and their rump and uppertail coverts dull greenish olive. Their wings and tail are mostly blackish with olive-green edges on the feathers. The greater and median wing coverts have buffish yellow tips that form two wing bars. Their underparts below the upper breast are yellow. Voice: The hooded berryeater's song is a "soft, mellow, wrat? what-now".

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When to see the Hooded Berryeater

One bar for each month, and every month is filled: this bird is recorded here in all twelve. The wide bar is October, the month with the most records.

Where to see the Hooded Berryeater

Regular range

The map shades 1 country with regular records. Everything unshaded has no records. Countries are listed below the map.

Brazil

About the Hooded Berryeater

The hooded berryeater is a species of bird in the family Cotingidae, the cotingas. It is endemic to Brazil.

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Easily confused with

Black-headed BerryeaterCarpornis melanocephalaThe black-headed berryeater is 20 to 21 cm (7.9 to 8.3 in) long; three individuals weighed between 63 to 67 g (2.2 to 2.4 oz).

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