Sapayoa (Sapayoa aenigma)
About the Sapayoa
The sapayoa or broad-billed sapayoa (Sapayoa aenigma) is a suboscine passerine bird found Colombia, Ecuador, and Panama. As the sapayoa's specific epithet aenigma ("the enigma") implies, its relationships have long been elusive. The sapayoa was formally described by the German ornithologist Ernst Hartert in 1903 under the present binomial name Sapayoa aenigma. It has always been considered a monotypic genus, Sapayoa, and historically regarded as a New World suboscine; in particular, it was assigned to the manakin family (Pipridae). However, the species was listed as incertae sedis (position uncertain) in the Sibley-Ahlquist taxonomy, because
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1 recording on this page · licensed CC BY-SA ×1 · mirrored on this server, free for commercial reuse · recorded in Colombia, Ecuador, Panama · xeno-canto lists 24 recordings for this species in total.
Other birds in this region
- Acadian FlycatcherEmpidonax virescensrecording
- American Yellow WarblerSetophaga aestivarecording
- Ashy-throated Bush TanagerChlorospingus canigularisrecording
- BananaquitCoereba flaveolarecording
- Band-backed WrenCampylorhynchus zonatusrecording
- Band-tailed BarbthroatThrenetes ruckerirecording
These are the birds recorded alongside it, not close relatives — the site holds no other member of its genus or family yet.