#sapayoa

[darknymfa-art]

Aviapril day 1, sapayoa. Love looking up a bird and it's like "yeah the name means "the enigma" don't worry about it".

[thatonegaycactus]

Day 91 of DDD! The Sapayoa! While this bird is a suboscine living in the new world it is nowadays considered an old world suboscine that somehow made its way to modern day Colombia and panama. Due to this, Sapayoa today has its very own family as the last of its kind. The last of the old world suboscine living in the new world.

[a-dinosaur-a-day]

three cheers for the Sapayoa, the biggest prankster in Neornithes

pretending to be a regular western hemisphere Tyranni and then

PSYCH

eastern hemisphere Tyranni going on an adventure

10/10 best prank on scientists ever. what WILL they think of next

[todaysbird]

the sapayoa is a small passerine bird found in the rainforests of panama and northwestern south america. they spend most of their time in mixed-species flocks foraging for insects and fruit. the sapayoa is notable due to its unusual ‘bisexual’ breeding communes. up to 6 adults have been observed collaborating as a family unit to raise one nest’s chicks. little else is known about this bird, as they haven’t been extensively studied.

[na-bird-of-the-day]

BOTD: Sapayoa

Photo: David Monroy R

"A strange greenish bird with a limited distribution from Panama to northwest Ecuador. Dull olive overall, slightly brighter yellow on the throat and upper breast. It also has a concealed yellow crown patch, but it is difficult to see. Found in the understory of mature lowland forest, singly, in pairs, or in small groups, often following mixed-species flocks. Interestingly, this species has no close relatives in the Americas; it is most closely related to Asian broadbills."

- eBird

[albertonykus]

To celebrate my labmate Juan and myself recently passing our PhD vivas, I drew the members of our lab as total-group birds (and a stem-reptile).

[antisisyphus]

The sapayoa is a living fossil. Photo by Jan Axel.

[hello-birdies]

Sapayoa aenigma by Nick Athanas.