Redécouverte du Manakin doré au Brésil

The Golden-crowned Manakin  Lepidotrix (formerly Pipra) vilasboasi is an enigmatic species known only from three adult males, collected by Helmut Sick and Raimundo Costa in July 1957 near a small left bank tributary at the headwaters of the rio Cururu, a tributary at the right margin of the rio Teles Pires. The species is considered Vulnerable. The range of L. vilasboasi has been subject to some confusion, as there are two rios Cururu along the right bank of the rio Teles Pires. It has been suggested that L. vilasboasi occurs in a belt between the rios Tapajós and Xingu, but this is hypothetical. The lack of recent records and the seemingly restricted range between that of L. nattereri gracilis and Opal-crowned Manakin L. iris eucephala prompted the suggestion that vilasboasi is a hybrid between the two.
In May 2002, Fábio Olmos from the BirdLife International Brasil Programme and José Fernando Pacheco du Comitê Brasileiro de Registros Ornitológicos conducted an ornithological survey of areas along the Cuiabá–Santarém road, an earthen strip running from northern Mato Grosso to the right bank of the Amazon in Pará. Early in the morning of 14 May, JFP observed an adult male L. vilasboasi perched near the ground on a fallen branch beside a dirt road with some vehicle traffic. We p^ropose you a French version ot their article published in the Cotinga Journal.