Sapayoa

The Sapayoa is a small, olive-colored bird, somewhat paler below and with a yellowish throat. Its habitus resembles a bigger, longer-tailed, broader-billed female manakin. It is rare to uncommon in the forest understory, favoring ravines and small streams.

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

The Sapayoa or Broad-billed Sapayoa, Sapayoa aenigma, is a suboscine passerine found in lowland rainforests in Panama and northwest South America. As the epithet aenigma ("the enigma") implies, its relationships have long been elusive. It is easy to overlook, but appears to be common in a wide range and is not considered threatened by the IUCN. The Sapayoa is a small, olive-colored bird, somewhat paler below and with a yellowish throat. Its habitus resembles a bigger, longer-tailed, broader-billed female manakin. More

Sapayoa was related to Old World suboscines, and may be the only relict of this ancient lineage remaining in the New World. Prum (1993) studied the phylogeny and biogeography of the asities and broadbills and presented evidence that the asities were just a subgroup of broadbills. The full story was not sorted out until Moyle et al. (2006) provided the necessary new research to show the relationship among the (mostly) Old World broadbills. More

Sapayoa aenigma: A New World representative of "Old World suboscines". Proceedings of the Royal Society of London, Series B (Supplement) 270:S238-S241. About This Page Page copyright © 2007 Page: Tree of Life Sapayoa aenigma. Broad-billed Sapayoa. The TEXT of this page is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial License - Version 3.0. More

The Sapayoa was originally classified in the group Pipridae, according to at least one author, the genus more accurately fits the broadbill family. The four species of asities, a family endemic to Madagascar, are sometimes included in the broadbills (Prum 1993). Species - Green Broadbill There are five subfamilies of broadbills. More

The specific name of Sapayoa says it all: aenigma. This species' taxonomic status has undergone periodic revision; it was once considered a manakin, now more appropriately recognized as a tyrant-flycatcher, where it is assigned to the Genera incertae sedis (Latin for "we haven't got a clue!"). It is extremely rare and difficult to observe, due to both its rather dull plumage and its habit of lurking near dark forest streams. More

Sapayoa aenigma, the Sapayoa (AOU 1998), is a small passerine resident in a narrow zone of rainforest in Panama, Colombia, and Ecuador. Described by Hartert (1903), who found it "difficult to place in the system", Sapayoa, in keeping with its specific name, has long been a taxonomic puzzle. After much study, Hartert concluded that it was best placed in the New World suboscine family Pipridae (the manakins), part of the tyrannoid group of suboscines. This has been the generally prevailing view over the past century (e.g. More

Whilst Sapayoa is broader billed than any Piprid, no Sapayoa is narrower or broader billed than any other Sapayoa. It could therefore be argued that the words "Broad-billed", whilst not misleading, are redundant. This comment applies also to "Black-capped Donacobius" and is a reason why monotypic families often have single word English names. 3. The English name "Sapayoa" is used in some recent texts (e.g. Dickinson 2003; AOU checklists since 1997). 4. More

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^ Sapayoa aenigma: a New World representative of 'Old World suboscines' * Prum, R. 0. 1993. Phylogeny, biogeography, and evolution of the broadbills (Eurylaimidae) and asities (Philepittidae) based on morphology. Auk 110:304-324. More

Sapayoa, split off about 52 million years ago, then the Asities of Madagascar perhaps 46 million years ago (Prum 1993 had shown that Asities were 'nested' within the old-school broadbill assemblage), leaving a set of mostly Asian broadbills (including the Mindanao Wattled Broadbill; a female is shown to the right) and Grauer's Broadbill in Africa (more on that below). It is remarkable that both lineages of broadbills — which I treat as two families here — both have Asian and African components. More

Sapayoa aenigma, has finally found a new home in this group as the only New World representative of the Eurylaimides (see also Fjeldsa et al., 2003; Chesser, 2004). However, whether it is closer to the Calyptomenidae or Philepittidae and Eurylaimidae remains unresolved. Using different genes, Irestedt et al. (2006b) find it sister to Calyptomenidae, while Moyle et al (2006a) find it sister to Philepittidae + Eurylaimidae. In either case, the split is quite ancient. More

sapayoa Show 193 coordinate conceptsHide coordinate concepts ∟sapayoa (genus) ∟accentors ∟albatrosses ∟anhingas ∟antbirds ∟ant-thrushes and antpittas ∟asities ∟auks ∟australasian babblers ∟australasian robins ∟australasian wrens ∟australian mudnesters ∟australian treecreepers ∟babblers and parrotbills ∟bald crows ∟bananaquit ∟barn owls ∟bee-eaters ∟berrypeckers ∟boatbills ∟bowerbirds ∟bristlebirds ∟bristlehead ∟broadbills ∟bulbuls ∟buntings, american sparrows and allies ∟bustards ∟butcherbirds ∟buttonquails ∟cardinals, grosbeaks, saltators and allies ∟cassowaries ∟chachalacas, curassows, guans ∟chats and old world flycatchers ∟cisticolas and allies ∟cockatoos and parrots ∟cormorants ∟cotingas ∟coursers, More

The Sapayoa, Sapayoa aenigma, has finally found a new home in this group as the only new world representative of the Eurylaimida. The main split among the Eurylaimida is between the pittas and the rest. Moyle et al. found that the broadbills were not a natural grouping. Some are more closely related to the Sapayoa and the asities than they are to the other broadbills. More

not agree with Sapayoa (which is entirely olive green), and more importantly, the flanks appear to be a paler grayish color, which fits Schiffornis turdinus and not Sapayoa (which has brighter yellow-olive belly if it is paler than the rest of the plumage). Of course bill shape would be the clincher (broad bill in Sapayoa), but as I said, one cannot really discern this from the photos. More

* Sapayoa (we have even video-taped it) * Harpy eagle * Great-green Macaws Some other Darien specialties that are commonly seen include: * Gray-cheeked Nunlet * Yellow-browed Shrike-vireo * Black Antshrike * Sirystes Other forest-dwelling species of interest include: * Red-throated Caracara * Slaty-backed Forest-falcon More

Sapayoas! The two birds were vocally very active and it seemed that they dominated the flock at the time. We had great looks at this pair of Sapayoas as we could even see the yellow crown patch of the male. Other species that we saw in the flock were Lemon-spectacled Tanager and Western Woodhaunter. The flock moved away from us and we continued to walk upstream. A Chestnut-mandibled Toucan was watching us from the canopy and showed itself well. More

Sapayoa Smithornis Pseudocalyptomena Corydon Cymbirhynchus Eurylaimus Psarisomus Serilophus Calyptomena The broadbills are a family of small passerine bird species found in tropical southeast Asia, with a few species in Africa. More

Madagascar and Sapayoa of the New World, and together are the sister group to the pittas (Pittidae) (Irestedt et al. 2006; Moyle 2006a); Retention of asities and Sapayoa in their own respective families requires recognition also of Calyptomena and Smithornis as a separate and perhaps family of broadbills (TOL) 4. More

However, it includes Sapayoa and birds in the Schiffornis assemblage which are now assigned to other families. Literature cited : Ericson, P.G.P., D. Zuccon, J.I. Ohlson, U.S. Johansson, H. Alvarenga, and R.O. Prum. 2006. Higher-level phylogeny and morphological evolution of tyrant flycatchers, cotingas, manakins, and their allies (Aves: Tyrannida). Molec. Phylogenetics Evol. 40: 471-483. Hirschfeld, E., ed. 2007. Rare Birds Yearbook 2008. More

But Sapayoa has floated around for a couple of decades without a home and the molecular data looks strong. It just seems hard to imagine biogeographically. YES. ********************************* 2007-D-2 Split Icterus spurius into two species NO. Nothing here persuades me that spurius and fuertes are two distinct biological species. NO. I agree with the recommendation of the proposal that these are best treated as subspecies for now. More

The Sapayoa was originally classified in the group Pipridae, according to Sapayoa aenigma: a New World representative of 'Old World suboscines' the genus more accurately fits the broadbill family. More