Scientists Discover First Known Hybrid Bird Species In The Amazon Rainforest

The golden-crowned manakin lives in an area of the south-central Amazon Rainforest that is about 200 square kilometres and is largely separated from areas where snow- capped and opal-crowned live by wide rivers that the birds are reluctant to cross. It likely owes its survival as a species on being geographically isolated from its parental species at some point during a past ice age when rainforest coverage contracted, and wide rivers formed natural barriers.