Guianan Red-Cotinga

The Guianan red cotinga is 22 to 24 cm (8.7 to 9.4 in) long and weighs about 82 to 95 g (2.9 to 3.4 oz). The sexes have different plumage. Adults have distinctive forehead feathers that project forward, partially concealing the nostrils, and prominent bristles around the base of the bill. Adult males have a glossy bright red crown on an otherwise blackish to maroon-brown head. Their upperparts are also blackish to maroon-brown. Their wings are mostly rufescent brown with duskier primaries. Their tail is bright red with a dark brownish bar across the end. Their underparts are bright red. Females are larger than males. They have a dull reddish crown and ear coverts on an otherwise olive face; their upperparts and wings are also olive. Their tail is dull reddish. Their underparts are rosy red. Both sexes have a red-brown iris, a horn-colored to brownish orange bill, and pinkish to pale brownish orange legs and feet. Immature males resemble adult females with deeper red underparts.

The Guianan red cotinga is found from eastern Bolívar state in far eastern Venezuela east through the Guianas and south in northern Brazil. In Brazil the western edge of its range is eastern Roraima and eastern Amazonas, its eastern edge the Atlantic in northwestern Maranhão, and its southern edge in the lower Tapajós River drainage. The western part of its range slightly overlaps that of the black-necked red cotinga. It inhabits humid to wet lowland forest. In elevation it reaches 250 m (800 ft) in Venezuela and 600 m (2,000 ft) in Brazil.

The Guianan red cotinga appears to feed only on fruit; species in at least eight botanical families have been recorded as its source. It plucks the fruits while perched or with a short sally.