Bare-necked fruitcrow

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Bare-necked fruitcrow
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Drawing by John Keulemans 1901
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Scientific classification OOjs UI icon edit-ltr.svg
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves
Order: Passeriformes
Family: Cotingidae
Genus: Gymnoderus
E. Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire, 1809
Species:
G. foetidus
Binomial name
Gymnoderus foetidus
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Synonyms
  • Gracula foetidaLinnaeus, 1758 (protonym)

The bare-necked fruitcrow (Gymnoderus foetidus) is a species of bird in the family Cotingidae, the cotingas. [2] It is found in every mainland South American country except Argentina, Chile, Uruguay, and Paraguay. [3]

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Taxonomy and systematics

The bare-necked fruitcrow was formally described in 1758 by the Swedish naturalist Carl Linnaeus in the tenth edition of his Systema Naturae under the binomial name Gracula foetida. [4] [5] Linnaeus specified the type locality as America but in 1902 the locality was restricted to Surinam. [5] [6] The bare-necked fruitcrow is now the only species placed in the genus Gymnoderus that was introduced in 1809 by the French naturalist Étienne Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire. [7] [2] The genus name combines the Ancient Greek gumnos meaning "bare" or "naked" with dera meaning "neck" or "throat". The specific epithet foetidus is Latin meaning "stinking". [8] The species is monotypic: no subspecies are recognized. [2]

A large molecular phylogenetic study of the suboscines published in 2020 found that the bare-necked fruitcrow was sister to the black-faced cotinga (Conioptilon mcilhennyi). [9]

Description

The bare-necked fruitcrow is 34 to 39 cm (13 to 15 in) long; one individual weighed 220 g (7.8 oz). Both sexes have bare blue or bluish white skin on their lower face and neck; on both the skin drapes in folds though much less so on the female than male. The rest of their heads have short velvety feathers and their flanks have large patches of powder down. Adult males are otherwise mostly black except that most of their wing is silvery gray. Females are smaller than males; adults are mostly slaty gray with a faint paler scaly pattern. Juveniles are mostly white; immatures progress from there to adult plumage over two to three years. [10]

Distribution and habitat

The bare-necked fruitcrow is primarily a bird of the Amazon Basin, although its range skirts much of the Negro River watershed in the northern part of it and also includes the basin of the Orinoco River. One arm of its range extends from far eastern Colombia and southwestern Venezuela across far northern Brazil and the Guianas to the Atlantic and south from there to join the rest of the range. The bulk of its range extends from south-central Colombia, eastern Ecuador, and eastern Peru east through northern Bolivia and north-central Brazil. In Brazil the main range's northern edge is roughly from west-central Amazonas east to Amapá and its southern edge from northern Mato Grosso do Sul northeast to the Atlantic in Maranhão. [10]

The bare-necked fruitcrow inhabits humid forest including várzea and terra firme types. It tends to be most frequent along rivers and around lakes. [10] [11] In elevation it is found below 500 m (1,600 ft) in Colombia, below 300 m (1,000 ft) in Ecuador, below 600 m (2,000 ft) in Peru, and below 150 m (500 ft) in Venezuela. [12] [13] [14] [15]

Behavior

Movement

The bare-necked fruitcrow is often seen in small flocks along and crossing rivers, but it is not known if this movement is local or represents seasonal migration. [10] [14]

Feeding

The bare-necked fruitcrow feeds mostly on fruit and also includes small and large insects in its diet. It forages singly, in pairs, and in flocks. Atypically among cotingas, it takes much fruit and insects while running or hopping along branches. It takes some insects, for instance flying ants, in mid-air with sallies from atop a tree. [10] [13] [14]

Breeding

The bare-necked fruitcrow's breeding season varies latitudinally, becoming later south to north. The one described nest was a shallow cup made from lichens and thin plant fibers coated with fungus. It was on a horizontal branch at an estimated height of 6 to 10 m (20 to 35 ft) above the ground. Another, not otherwise described, was 40 m (130 ft) up in the crown of a tree. The clutch is believed to be one egg. Nothing else is known about the species' breeding biology. [10]

Vocalization

The bare-necked fruitcrow is described by some as silent [11] or "apparently mute" [13] . Nevertheless, its voice has been described as a "deep bellowing oooooooo like a fog-horn". [16] As of October 2025 xeno-canto and Cornell Lab's Macaulay Library each had a single recording. [17] [18]

Status

The IUCN has assessed the bare-necked fruitcrow as being of Least Concern. It has a very large range; its population size is not known and is believed to be decreasing. No immediate threats have been identified. [1] It is considered common in Colombia, Ecuador, and Brazil, fairly common in Peru, and uncommon in Venezuela. [11] [12] [13] [14] [15] It occurs in several protected areas. [10]

References

  1. 1 2 BirdLife International (2024). "Bare-necked Fruitcrow Gymnoderus foetidus". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species . 2024 e.T22700916A264386422. doi: 10.2305/IUCN.UK.2024-2.RLTS.T22700916A264386422.en . Retrieved 2 October 2025.
  2. 1 2 3 Gill, Frank; Donsker, David; Rasmussen, Pamela, eds. (March 2025). "Cotingas, manakins, tityras, becards". IOC World Bird List. v 15.1. Retrieved 3 March 2025.
  3. ↑ Remsen, J. V., Jr., J. I. Areta, E. Bonaccorso, S. Claramunt, D. F. Lane, L, N. Naka, M. B. Robbins, F. G. Stiles, and K. J. Zimmer. Version 29 September 2025. Species Lists of Birds for South American Countries and Territories. South American Classification Committee associated with the International Ornithological Union. https://www.museum.lsu.edu/~Remsen/SACCCountryLists.htm retrieved 29 September 2025
  4. ↑ Linnaeus, Carl (1758). Systema Naturae per regna tria naturae, secundum classes, ordines, genera, species, cum characteribus, differentiis, synonymis, locis (in Latin). Vol. 1 (10th ed.). Holmiae (Stockholm): Laurentii Salvii. pp. 108–109.
  5. 1 2 Traylor, Melvin A. Jr, ed. (1979). Check-List of Birds of the World. Vol. 8. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Museum of Comparative Zoology. p. 301.
  6. ↑ Berlepsch, Hans von; Hartert, Ernst (1902). "On the birds of the Orinoco region". Novitates Zoologicae. 9: 1–135 [58].
  7. ↑ Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire, Étienne (1809). "D'une nouvelle espèce d'oiseau, voisine du Corvus nudus et du Corvus calvus, et établissement de ces trois espèces en autant de genres, sous les noms de Cephalopterus, Gymnoderus et Gymnocephalus". Annales Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle (in French). 13: 235–238 [235, 237].
  8. ↑ Jobling, James A. (2010). The Helm Dictionary of Scientific Bird Names. London: Christopher Helm. pp.  182, 162. ISBN   978-1-4081-2501-4.
  9. ↑ Harvey, M.G.; Bravo, G.A.; Claramunt, S.; Cuervo, A.M.; Derryberry, G.E.; Battilana, J.; Seeholzer, G.F.; McKay, J.S.; O'Meara, B.C.; Faircloth, B.C.; Edwards, S.V.; Pérez-Emán, J.; Moyle, R.G.; Sheldon, F.H.; Aleixo, A.; Smith, B.T.; Chesser, R.T.; Silveira, L.F.; Cracraft, J.; Brumfield, R.T.; Derryberry, E.P. (2020). "The evolution of a tropical biodiversity hotspot". Science. 370 (6522): 1343–1348. Bibcode:2020Sci...370.1343H. doi:10.1126/science.aaz6970. hdl: 10138/329703 . PMID   33303617. S2CID   228084618. A high resolution version of the phylogenetic tree in Figure 1 is available from the first author's website here.
  10. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 Snow, D. and A. Bonan (2020). Bare-necked Fruitcrow (Gymnoderus foetidus), version 1.0. In Birds of the World (J. del Hoyo, A. Elliott, J. Sargatal, D. A. Christie, and E. de Juana, Editors). Cornell Lab of Ornithology, Ithaca, NY, USA. https://doi.org/10.2173/bow.banfru1.01 retrieved October 2, 2025
  11. 1 2 3 van Perlo, Ber (2009). A Field Guide to the Birds of Brazil. New York: Oxford University Press. pp. 274–275. ISBN   978-0-19-530155-7.
  12. 1 2 McMullan, Miles; Donegan, Thomas M.; Quevedo, Alonso (2010). Field Guide to the Birds of Colombia. Bogotá: Fundación ProAves. p. 172. ISBN   978-0-9827615-0-2.
  13. 1 2 3 4 Ridgely, Robert S.; Greenfield, Paul J. (2001). The Birds of Ecuador: Field Guide. Vol. II. Ithaca: Cornell University Press. p. 552. ISBN   978-0-8014-8721-7.
  14. 1 2 3 4 Schulenberg, T.S.; Stotz, D.F.; Lane, D.F.; O'Neill, J.P.; Parker, T.A. III (2010). Birds of Peru. Princeton Field Guides (revised and updated ed.). Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press. p. 494. ISBN   978-0691130231.
  15. 1 2 Hilty, Steven L. (2003). Birds of Venezuela (second ed.). Princeton NJ: Princeton University Press. p. 657.
  16. ↑ Lane, D.G. (2003). First description of song display and other notes on the Bare-necked Fruitcrow (Gymnoderus foetidus, Cotingidae). Orn. Neotropical. 14(4): 491-497.
  17. ↑ "Bare-necked Fruitcrow Gymnoderus foetidus". xeno-canto. 2025. Retrieved October 2, 2025.
  18. ↑ "Bare-necked Fruitcrow Gymnoderus foetidus". Birds of the World. Cornell Lab of Ornithology. 2025. Retrieved October 2, 2025.
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