Recently, he wrote about a little bird called a manakin.    From Wordnik.com.  [moonwalking bird] Reference

But lance-tailed manakin males cooperate in spectacular courtship displays with unrelated partners.    From Wordnik.com.  [Science Press Releases] Reference

The bird example is the Araripe's manakin (Antilophia bokermanni), a wonderful bird recently discovered on the forest slopes of Chapada do Araripe.    From Wordnik.com.  [Caatinga Enclaves moist forests] Reference

MC1R variation in the blue crowned manakin, Lepidothrix coronata.    From Wordnik.com.  [PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles] Reference

I stood with a tanager in one hand, a lovely manakin in the other, thinking.    From Wordnik.com.  [Nat the Naturalist A Boy's Adventures in the Eastern Seas] Reference

The prettiest bird was a tiny manakin, coal-black, with a red-and-orange head.    From Wordnik.com.  [Through the Brazilian Wilderness] Reference

They are called after their colours, as the speckled manakin, the white-capped South.    From Wordnik.com.  [How to See the British Museum in Four Visits] Reference

The manakin gave a terrible yell, which brought from a hidden corner an old woman, crying.    From Wordnik.com.  [Folk Lore Superstitious Beliefs in the West of Scotland within This Century] Reference

The curious black umbrella-bird is entirely confined to it, as is also the little bristle-tailed manakin.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Western World Picturesque Sketches of Nature and Natural History in North and South America] Reference

Whereat, slapping the manakin on the cheek, the old woman said, "If Self did it, Self must mend it again.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Folk Lore Superstitious Beliefs in the West of Scotland within This Century] Reference

To which the manakin, without being apparently disturbed, replied, "My name is Self, and what's your name?".    From Wordnik.com.  [Folk Lore Superstitious Beliefs in the West of Scotland within This Century] Reference

When I encounter one of these people some fine day in a hotel, I act like the birds, who see a manakin in a field.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Works of Guy de Maupassant, Vol. 1 (of 8) Boule de Suif and Other Stories] Reference

Then the miller stepped out from his hiding-place, and said, "Aye, my manakin, and wha may you be, and what's your name?".    From Wordnik.com.  [Folk Lore Superstitious Beliefs in the West of Scotland within This Century] Reference

The miller was so frightened that this time he let him go; but, in a few minutes, the manakin returned again with his cappie.    From Wordnik.com.  [Folk Lore Superstitious Beliefs in the West of Scotland within This Century] Reference

To preserve in our collections the fine tint of the plumage of a male and full-grown rock-manakin, it must not be exposed to the light.    From Wordnik.com.  [Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America, During the Year 1799-1804 — Volume 2] Reference

In these solitary haunts the rock-manakin with gilded plumage (Pipra rupicola), one of the most beautiful birds of the tropics, builds its nest.    From Wordnik.com.  [Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America, During the Year 1799-1804 — Volume 2] Reference

But a new study finds that torrential downpours stress out the white-ruffed manakin-and that may be why it and other tropical birds migrate up and down slopes.    From Wordnik.com.  [News] Reference

After a time, he was surprised to see the hopper beginning to go, and, looking up, he saw a little manakin holding a little cappie in his hand and filling it at the hopper.    From Wordnik.com.  [Folk Lore Superstitious Beliefs in the West of Scotland within This Century] Reference

Today's stories on newscientist. com, at a glance, including: what the LHC is really looking for, how a mini ice age took hold of Europe in months, and how to get a club-winged manakin excited.    From Wordnik.com.  [New Scientist - Online News] Reference

Punkasso gives a description of the Club 88 dance floor at this point: false manakin puppeteers prolificate on the floor in a Devoesque bath of the 60's, it was such a cliche I could hardly move.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ned Raggett Ponders It All] Reference

The great and good William McKinley, the patient, praying President, was most bitterly assailed, his motives most bitterly impunged and he was called "the puppet president," "the tool," "the manakin.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Life of Charles T. Walker, D.D., ("The Black Spurgeon.") Pastor Mt. Olivet Baptist Church, New York City] Reference

Other avifauna restricted to this ecoregion include Serra do Mar tyrant-manakin (Neopelma chrysolophum), Cipó canastero (EN) (Asthenes luizae), and Brasília tapaculo (VU) (Scytalopus novacapitalis).    From Wordnik.com.  [Campos Rupestres montane savanna] Reference

I drew on examples such as the dance of the blue manakin, which, for me, is avian tango, and the Lawes's parotia (the six-plumed bird of paradise), which has a courtship dance that looks like a bird ballet.    From Wordnik.com.  [New Scientist - Online News] Reference

An additional example would come from the long-tailed manakin, where pairs or trios of males work together to court a single female, but only the dominant male actually mates if their courtship’s successful.    From Wordnik.com.  [Behe Disproves Irreducible Complexity - The Panda's Thumb] Reference

Music:vast ...the manakin bird!.    From Wordnik.com.  [December 2nd, 2008] Reference

"The rock manakin, or chatterer," he replied; "an inhabitant of the hottest and most sterile parts of Central America.    From Wordnik.com.  [Nat the Naturalist A Boy's Adventures in the Eastern Seas] Reference

Ah, the blowpipe is a wonderful instrument; it will serve to kill anything, from a big tapir or a fierce jaguar or puma, down to the smallest manakin or humming-bird. ".    From Wordnik.com.  [The Wanderers Adventures in the Wilds of Trinidad and Orinoco] Reference

This is a dear manakin to you, Sir Toby.    From Wordnik.com.  [Act III. Scene II. Twelfth-Night; or, What You Will] Reference

The manakin answered, "It was Self did it.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Folk Lore Superstitious Beliefs in the West of Scotland within This Century] Reference

(2006) Sequence variation in the coding region of the malanocortin-1 receptor gene (MC1R) is not associated with plumage variation in the blue crowned manakin (Lepidothrix coronata).    From Wordnik.com.  [PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles] Reference

The horrid manakin! ".    From Wordnik.com.  [Thomas Wingfold, Curate] Reference

American manakin, the purple-breasted, variegated, purple-throated, and rock manakins.    From Wordnik.com.  [How to See the British Museum in Four Visits] Reference