Black-capped donacobius Black-capped donacobius The black-capped donacobius ("Donacobius atricapilla") is a conspicuous, vocal South American bird. It is found in tropical swamps and wetlands in Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, French Guiana, Guyana, Paraguay, Peru, Suriname, and Venezuela; also Panama of Central America. In 1760 the French zoologist Mathurin Jacques Brisson included a description of the black-capped donacobius in his "Ornithologie" based on a specimen that he mistakenly believed had been collected from the Cape of Good Hope in South Africa. He used the French name "Le merle a test noire de Cap de Bonne Espérance" and the Latin "Merula Atricapilla Capitis
Coraya wren Coraya wren The Coraya wren ("Pheugopedius coraya") is a species of bird in the Troglodytidae family, the wrens. It is found in Amazonian northern and northwestern South America, the northern Amazon Basin and the Guianas, of Guyana, French Guiana, Suriname, and Amazonian southeast Colombia, eastern Ecuador, and north and central Peru; also the southeastern Orinoco River Basin of Venezuela. Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests, subtropical or tropical swamps, and heavily degraded former forest. Besides the northern Amazon Basin and the Guianas including the Guiana Highlands, the contiguous range in the "southeastern" Amazon Basin extends to