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  • noun Plural form of cotinga.

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Examples

  • (The rest are eaten by Kiskadee flycatchers, Giant wrens, Squirrel Cuckoos, saltators, cotingas, etc.) - birder soon to be xalapeño ... again.

    Bugs 2006

  • (The rest are eaten by Kiskadee flycatchers, Giant wrens, Squirrel Cuckoos, saltators, cotingas, etc.) - birder soon to be xalapeño ... again.

    Bugs 2006

  • (The rest are eaten by Kiskadee flycatchers, Giant wrens, Squirrel Cuckoos, saltators, cotingas, etc.) - birder soon to be xalapeño ... again.

    Bugs 2006

  • (The rest are eaten by Kiskadee flycatchers, Giant wrens, Squirrel Cuckoos, saltators, cotingas, etc.) - birder soon to be xalapeño ... again.

    Bugs 2006

  • Three times I went past the place before I could be certain, and even at the last I identified it only by the relative position of the giant tauroneero tree, in which I had shot many cotingas.

    Edge of the Jungle William Beebe 1919

  • Though, like most of its tribe, it is sometimes seen in flocks, it never feeds with other species of cotingas.

    The Western World Picturesque Sketches of Nature and Natural History in North and South America William Henry Giles Kingston 1847

  • Lovely as are the humming-birds, the cotingas, belonging to the order of

    The Western World Picturesque Sketches of Nature and Natural History in North and South America William Henry Giles Kingston 1847

  • Crested orioles, hooded bullfinches, alight to pick up little grains or insects almost at his feet; humming-birds, variegated cotingas, red manaquins flutter before him in the sunbeams, pursuing invisible flies; little wood-peckers, black or green, hop around the trunks of the trees, stopping a moment to see him pass and then resuming their spiral ascent.

    The Solitary of Juan Fernandez, or the Real Robinson Crusoe Joseph Xavier Saintine 1831

  • He is never seen to feed with the other cotingas, nor is it known in what part of

    Wanderings in South America Charles Waterton 1823

  • While the cotingas attract your attention by their superior plumage, the singular form of the toucan makes a lasting impression on your memory.

    Wanderings in South America Charles Waterton 1823

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