Green Manakin

The green manakin is 11 to 13 cm (4.3 to 5.1 in) long and weighs 10.6 to 18.3 g (0.37 to 0.65 oz). The sexes are alike. Adults of the nominate subspecies have a bright grass green head, upperparts, and central tail feathers. Their wings and outer tail feathers are dusky or brownish with green outer edges. Their throat, breast, flanks and undertail coverts are olive and their chin and central belly are pale yellowish. They have a brown to dark brown iris with a pale ring around the eye, a black maxilla, a dark gray mandible, and highly variable dark gray, pinkish gray, or blackish to brown legs and feet. Subspecies C. h. viridior is larger than the nominate, with brighter green upperparts, more and deeper yellow on the underparts, and dark brown to black bill.

The green manakin is found along the eastern slope of the Andes from Meta Department in central Colombia south through eastern Ecuador into Peru as far as eastern Junín Department. Subspecies C. h. viridior is found further south on the eastern Andean slope in Peru's Cuzco and Puno departments. The species inhabits the undergrowth to the mid-story of humid to wet terra firme forest. In elevation it occurs below 1,200 m (3,900 ft) in Colombia, mostly between 300 and 1,200 m (1,000 and 3,900 ft) in Ecuador, and between 400 and 1,100 m (1,300 and 3,600 ft) in Peru.

The green manakin's diet has not been detailed but is known to include fruit, which probably is its major component with some insects also eaten. It usually takes fruit with a brief hover at the end of a short flight from a perch. It sometimes joins mixed-species feeding flocks.