What is the name of a species of Dancing Bird in South America?

Question

I actually happend to see a very interesting bird featured on a show. 3 - 4 male birds trying to flirt with a female bird by making really cute dance moves. They are very colourful and a little small. The one with the best moves gets to be with the female and the rest flies away with a gracious dance move again. They are from the Amazon........

Can any of u pls give me more info on this.... Name , Pic, etc.

They were so cute....... iam still looking for more details abt them.

Thanks.

Answer 1

You need to be more specific, there are too many kinds of birds out there... Anyway, you can try this website:

http://southamerica.whatbird.com/mwg/_/0...

Answer 2

I think you might be talking about the blue bird of paradise..

heres a link to that video

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P85LoHftE...

and here it explains a little about it

http://dsc.discovery.com/convergence/pla...

click on JUNGLES, and it should be the first animal to appear

and here is the wikipedia article

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue_Bird_o...

hope it can help

Answer 3

They were probably manakins (saltarín in Spanish), found all over South and Central America.

I agree, they are so cute!  

The video below shows two males singing and jumping. They are Long-tailed manakins (Chiroxiphia linearis). In Spanish they are called Saltarín Toledo:

http://www.hbw.com/ibc/phtml/votacio.pht...

If you want more videos of manakins, please visit:

http://www.hbw.com/ibc/phtml/familia.pht...

You can read more about them on wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pipridae Apparently the male is only good for singing and dancing, the female is the one taking care of their little ones!