Band-tailed fruiteater

The band-tailed fruiteater (Pipreola intermedia) is a species of bird in the family Cotingidae, the cotingas. It is found in Bolivia and Peru.

The band-tailed fruiteater is 18.5 to 19.5 cm (7.3 to 7.7 in) long and weighs 44 to 59 g (1.6 to 2.1 oz). The sexes have different plumage. Adult males of the nominate subspecies have an entirely black head and upper breast with a thin yellow band ("collar") around its base except on the nape. Their upperparts are green and the wings and tail mostly that color. The wing's tertials have white tips. The tail has a black bar near the end and white tips on the feathers. Their underparts are yellow with black scallops. Their flanks are green and also have black scallops. Females have a green head instead of the male's black, little or no yellow collar, and less black scalloping on the underparts. They have a yellow eye-ring. Both sexes have a brown iris, a crimson bill with sometimes a black culmen, and red or orange-red legs and feet. Subspecies P. i. signata has a much bolder yellow collar than the nominate and brighter yellow, mostly unmarked, underparts. The band-tailed fruiteater is very similar to the green-and-black fruiteater with whose range it overlaps, but that species is smaller and does not have the black tail band.