The Striolated Manakin Is The Roundest And The Sweetest Bird That You Will Ever Meet (10 Photos)

Long considered the same species as Kinglet Manakin (Machaeropterus regulus), these two species' respective ranges are far removed, with Striolated Manakin being confined to western and northern South America, from northern Peru and western Brazil, through eastern Ecuador and Colombia, north to western Venezuela and east to the Tepui region of southern Venezuela, with a single, 19th-century specimen, record in western Guyana.