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Black Manakin (Xenopipo atronitens)

Black Manakin
Photo: Hector Bottai via Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0 — free for commercial reuse.

About the Black Manakin

The black manakin (Xenopipo atronitens) is a species of bird in the family Pipridae. It is found in Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, French Guiana, Guyana, Peru, Suriname, and Venezuela. Jean Cabanis erected genus Xenopipo in 1847 with the black manakin as its type species. It shares the genus with the olive manakin (X. uniformis). The black manakin is monotypic.

Source: Black manakin on Wikipedia, CC BY-SA
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No audio on this page yet

We only publish recordings we may use commercially, because this site is supported by ads. xeno-canto lists 31 recordings for this species: 1 CC BY-NC-SA. None of them permits commercial use, so there is no player here — the page is kept as a profile so the bird is not missing from the guide.

As soon as someone uploads a freely licensed recording, we mirror it and the player appears here.

Listed as recorded in Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia in the xeno-canto catalogue.

Other birds you can hear here

These are the birds recorded alongside it, not close relatives — the site holds no other member of its genus or family yet.