Yellow-crowned Manakin

The Yellow-crested Manakin's range is in a section of the northwestern Amazon Basin, , and mostly the Rio Negro drainage and the adjacent northwest headwaters to the Caribbean-flowing Orinoco River of Venezuela. Its southern range limit is mostly the Rio Negro southern side, to its Amazonian headwaters in eastern Colombia.

The Yellow-crowned Manakin is classified as Least Concern. Does not qualify for a more at risk category. Widespread and abundant taxa are included in this category.

Yellow-crowned Manakin, is a species of bird in the Pipridae family, the Manakins. It is found in the Amazon Basin of Brazil and Colombia; also the Orinoco River and southern Venezuela. Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests and subtropical or tropical dry shrubland. More

Order : Passeriformes
Family : Pipridae
Genus : Heterocercus
Species : flavivertex
Authority : Pelzeln, 1868