They will also travel in mixed-species feeding flocks with ovenbirds, tanagers, woodpeckers and cotingas. Captive pompadour cotingas have been observed occasionally consuming larger prey. The cotingas are birds of forests or forest edges in tropical South America. Cotingas are birds of forests or forest edges, that are primary frugivorous. The cotingas are birds of forests or forest edges in tropical Central and South America. Cotingas face very serious threats from loss of their habitats.