Lance-tailed manakins’ mating dance video

This video says about itself:

Epic Lance-tailed Manakin Dance and Display Sequence with Female, April 15, 2017

Two male Lance-tailed Manakins work together to convince a visiting female that the alpha male is worth mating with.

Watch live here.

This cam shows one display perch in a population of Lance-tailed Manakins on Isla Boca Brava, Chiriquí, Panamá, that has been monitored intensively since 1999. Lance-tailed Manakins are small passerine birds in the family Pipridae that live in secondary growth forests of Western Panama, Columbia, and Venezuela.

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