The Moonwalking Bird

The Red-capped Manakin is an attractive and vibrantly colored bird with a red cap, black body and yellow legs. It is small in stature but big in personality. The Red-capped Manakin is native to Central American countries such as Costa Rica, Belize, and Guatemala. The male bird is known for its fascinating courtship dance that is a must see! This courtship dance has been compared to Michael Jackson’s “Moonwalk” for good reason! The male bird, while courting the female, will make interesting sounds using the vibration of its wings rather than its voice, and put on an impressive show. The goal in producing these sounds and dancing is to attract the female. It is generally thought the female will choose the male with the best dance performance because a superior dance is indicative of the fittest male with quality genes to pass to offspring. Please enjoy dance performance captured in the video below. This would be a wonderful bird to see in the wild and add to your life list.

I would say a James Brown bird is more accurate These things are awesome and this fast shutter speed video reveals their flashy quick world for better understanding and admiration. It looks like a small road runner with those legs, but man the vibrations it creates to glide are really impressive. The sound they make with their wings is pretty impressive too.
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More Birds Of Paradise

Peace,
spec

Superb. Never heard of this bird before. Love the video

Watched video with "I like to move it" playing on the computer.....I highly suggest this.
It's like art imitating nature.
S&F

Lol!! That's awesome! Gonna try that down the pub next saturday night.....see if I can get me some action.....

reply to post by Flatcoat

Yea if you can pull that off without falling over, the ladies should flock your way mate
Get a vid and upload it here for kicks. Man it makes me wonder if James Brown ever saw this bird back in the day for inspiration.

reply to post by TheDoctor46

Nature continues to amaze and these courting rituals amongst birds is quite entertaining! The birds of paradise are truly impressive also.

Peace

reply to post by PutAQuarterIn

Indeed man, quite the spectacle! Thanks for the reply, and yea I have seen it with other music accompaniments and it is hilarious. I wouldl ike to see one with MC Hammer's Can't Touch This!

spec

reply to post by speculativeoptimist


Now that was fun, interesting and I learned something I never knew before. LL when the commentor said that the tree branch was like some sort of 'singles bar! Cracked me up! Thanks for posting

reply to post by ItDepends

My pleasure, glad ya duggit!

Oh my God, that was hysterical! What a beautiful little bird!!!!!!!

That was really fun to watch, a beautiful bird that can dance. Nature creates so many different things to see, so my life list would be very long.

I really enjoy reading threads like this, that are interesting and even inspiring, as sometimes in life as well as here, there is just too much gloom and doom. Thanks for all of the threads about nature that you share, they are some of my favorites here.

reply to post by Night Star

I busted out loud too watching it Look out lady birds, hubba hubba!

That was too cute and hilarious.

I couldn't stop laughing once he started to dance on the branch..

Cool find.

Beautiful bird.

S+F

reply to post by PacificBlue

Glad you enjoyed it PB, and yea nature never ceases to amaze. You might enjoy the Birds Of Paradise link in the OP too. More Birds Of Paradise
Here is a vid I recently added to it.

Peace,
spec

reply to post by Manhater

Thanks Manhater

reply to post by speculativeoptimist


Wow that's a cool video. That black dancing ballerina, so cute. One bird looked like slithered like a bug.. OMG shame we don't see these birds where I live. Totally adorable.

That one black bird is totally wild the way he dances like he's a showgirl in Las Vegas.

reply to post by Manhater

Yea they are amazing for sure Mh, and you should see the array of courtships as well as nest decorating that these guys front up. Check that birds of paradise thread, there are more species of these wondrous birds.

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reply to post by speculativeoptimist


Classic vid -he also pops up in this video around 4:20 but the whole thing is well worth a watch is you want a good laugh.