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Purple-breasted cotinga

Cotinga cotinga (Linnaeus, 1766)

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The purple-breasted cotinga (Cotinga cotinga) is a species in the family Cotingidae, order Passeriformes. Recorded adults weigh about 54 g. Its IUCN Red List status is Least Concern.

Purple-breasted cotinga (Cotinga cotinga)
Photo: Hector Bottai · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons

Quick facts about the purple-breasted cotinga

Weight
54 gsrc for Weight
Length
Not recorded
Lifespan
Not recorded
Diet
Frugivoresrc for Diet
Main food
Not recorded
Habitat
forestsrc for Habitat
Young per litter or clutch
Not recorded
Lifestyle
Perchingsrc for Lifestyle
Migration
Sedentarysrc for Migration
Conservation status
Least Concern (IUCN)src for Conservation status
Countries on record
Not recorded

Where does the purple-breasted cotinga live?

Not recorded

What is the purple-breasted cotinga?

Quoted from WikipediaCC BY-SA 4.0

The purple-breasted cotinga (Cotinga cotinga) is a species of bird in the family Cotingidae. It is found in Brazil, Colombia, French Guiana, Guyana, Peru, Suriname, and Venezuela.

From the Wikipedia article “Purple-breasted cotinga” (en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Purple-breasted_cotinga&oldid=1314711509), by Wikipedia contributors, licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0 (creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0). This block is kept separate from our own text.

Is the purple-breasted cotinga endangered?

The purple-breasted cotinga is listed as Least Concern on the IUCN Red List: it is not currently at risk of extinction.

  1. LCLeast Concern
  2. NTNear Threatened
  3. VUVulnerable
  4. ENEndangered
  5. CRCritically Endangered
  6. EWExtinct in the Wild
  7. EXExtinct

Category via Wikidata (CC0). Find the full assessment on the IUCN Red List. See all Least Concern species.

How is the purple-breasted cotinga classified?

  1. kingdomAnimalia
  2. phylumChordata
  3. classAves
  4. orderPasseriformes
  5. familyCotingidae
  6. genusCotinga
  7. SpeciesCotinga cotinga (Linnaeus, 1766)

Synonyms Ampelis cotinga, Tamagra jacova

Other names and names in other languages (30)
  • قطنجة أرجوانية الصدرArabic
  • cotinga de pit porpraCatalan
  • kotinga purpurovoprsáCzech
  • cotinga bronbiwsWelsh
  • PurpurkotingaDanish
  • PurpurlatzkotingaGerman
  • Purpurbrust-KotingaGerman
  • PurpurbrustkotingaGerman
  • purpurbrusta kotingoEsperanto
  • Cotinga pechimoradoSpanish
  • purppurakotingaFinnish
  • Cotinga de DaubentonFrench
  • grimiznoprsa kotingaCroatian
  • bíborosmellű kotingaHungarian
  • Cotinga pettoviolaItalian
  • ムネムラサキカザリドリJapanese
  • purpurinė kotingaLithuanian
  • PurperborstcotingaDutch
  • purpurbrystkotingaNorwegian
  • bławatnik purpurowyPolish
  • Cotinga-RoxaPortuguese
  • anambé-de-peito-roxoPortuguese
  • cotinga-de-peito-púrpuraPortuguese
  • Пурпурногрудая котингаRussian
  • Пурпурногрудая настоящая котингаRussian
  • kotinga azúrováSlovak
  • Mor Gerdanlı KotingaTurkish
  • котинга пурпуроваUkrainian
  • 紫胸伞鸟Chinese
  • 紫胸傘鳥Chinese

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Relatives of the purple-breasted cotinga

Other species in the same genus Cotinga.

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Common questions

Answered only where our data holds the answer.

How big is the purple-breasted cotinga?

An adult purple-breasted cotinga weighs 54 g, according to values recorded on Wikidata.

Is the purple-breasted cotinga endangered?

The purple-breasted cotinga is listed as Least Concern on the IUCN Red List, meaning it is not currently at risk of extinction.

What kind of animal is the purple-breasted cotinga?

The purple-breasted cotinga (Cotinga cotinga) belongs to the family Cotingidae in the order Passeriformes.

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APA

CreatureData. (2026). Purple-breasted cotinga (Cotinga cotinga). Retrieved from https://creaturedata.com/animals/purple-breasted-cotinga

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“Purple-breasted cotinga (Cotinga cotinga).” CreatureData, 2026, https://creaturedata.com/animals/purple-breasted-cotinga.

BibTeX
@misc{purple_breasted_cotinga_2026,
  title = {Purple-breasted cotinga (Cotinga cotinga)},
  author = {{CreatureData}},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://creaturedata.com/animals/purple-breasted-cotinga},
  note = {Data as of 2026-11-11}
}