Photo by Dominiek Plouvier, Suriname
The sound of a group of white-bearded manakins has been recorded on a so called 'lek' of this bird: a dancing place, where the females come to look at the males, who jump between small twigs while they make a characteristic sound with their wings (in this recording about 30 birds were flying around low in the bushes at Mapane, Suriname). Now and then the females will dance with the males on a clean piece of forest floor and copulate near the lek.
Observations of this manakin. Blue in the coastal area, yellow in savanna and red in the forest.
A bird with more gray (maybe from Brazil) was photographed by Robert Harrington in the San Diego Wild Animal Park.
| Distribution in Suriname (explanation) | |
| Coastal area |  |
| Savanna |  |
| Forests |  |
| Mountain forests | |
| Sipalawini savanna | |
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