Cotingidae

The cotingas are a large family of suboscine passerine birds found in Central America and tropical South America.

 

Phytotoma

Two subspecies of the White-tipped Plantcutter (Phytotoma rutila) might be in the early stages of ecological speciation. Genetic analyses uncovered gene flow from the highland (angustirostris) into the lowland (rutila) subspecies (Rodríguez-Cajarville et al., 2019).

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A White-tipped Plantcutter in Argentina © Hector Bottai | Wikimedia Commons

 

References

Rodríguez-Cajarville, M. J., Calderón, L., Tubaro, P. L., & Cabanne, G. S. (2019). Body size and genetic variation in the White-tipped Plantcutter (Phytotoma rutila: Cotingidae) suggest ecological divergence across the Chaco–Andes dry forest belt. Journal of Ornithology, 1-15.