Luiz Claudio Marigo / Blue backed manakin {Chiroxiphia pareola} Brazil

Claus Meyer / Swallow-tailed Manakin (Chiroxiphia caudata) perching on moss covered branch, Atlantic Forest ecosystem, Brazil

Glenn Bartley/ BIA / Blue-backed Manakin (Chiroxiphia pareola), Guyana

Melvin Grey / Blue-backed manakin (Chiroxiphia pareola atlantica) adult male on lekking branch in dense rainforest. Tobago

Murray Cooper / Blue-backed Manakin (Chiroxiphia pareola) dominant male and submissive male in synchronized courting dance for female, Ecuador

Tim Laman / Male Blue-crowned Manakin (Lepidothrix coronata) at a calling perch. Tiputini Biodiversity Station, Amazon Rainforest, Ecuador, January.

Pete Oxford / Blue-crowned Manakin (Pipra coronata) female, Yasuni National Park, Amazon, Ecuador

Luiz Claudio Marigo / Male Blue Manakin (Chiroxiphia caudata) perched in humid Atlantic Rainforest, municipality of Boa Nova, southeastern Bahia State, Brazil. September

Murray Cooper / Blue-backed Manakin (Chiroxiphia pareola) male displaying at lek with female, Ecuador

Murray Cooper / Blue-crowned Manakin (Pipra coronata) female on nest, Ecuador

Claus Meyer / Swallow-tailed Manakin (Chiroxiphia caudata) male portrait, Atlantic Forest ecosystem, Brazil

Konrad Wothe / Blue-backed Manakin (Chiroxiphia pareola) pair of males dancing, Tobago, West Indies