Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The club-winged manakin is a small passerine bird that is a resident breeding species on the western slopes of the Colombian Andes ...

The club-winged manakin is a small passerine bird that is a resident breeding species on the western slopes of the Colombian Andes and in the cloud forests of northwestern Ecuador.© ibrahim ...

While most birds sing using a vocal organ called the syrinx, the male club-winged manakin (Machaeropterus deliciosus) does something truly unusual: it plays music with its wings. Hidden in the cloud ...