White-fronted nunbird

Monasa morphoeus

The white-fronted nunbird is a species of near passerine bird in the puffbird family . It is found in the tropical Americas.
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Appearance

This glossy black or gray-black bird with a stout, medium red-orange bill is named for the white face markings on the cere, the base of its bill and on the upper throat. It has black eyes and black or gray-black legs.
White-fronted nunbirds (Monasa morphoeus) Estancia Bello Horizonte, Madre de Dios, Peru. Jun 15, 2022 Fall,Geotagged,Monasa morphoeus,Peru,White-fronted nunbird

Distribution

It occurs in Brazil, Bolivia, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, and Venezuela; in southern Central America in Honduras, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, and Panama. The white-fronted nunbird is found in the southern Amazon Basin, with the Amazon River as its northern limit, and extends to Maranhão state on the Atlantic coast; in the west, specifically northwest, it is limited eastwards by the lower reaches of the Rio Negro but extends westward towards the eastern Andes foothills. Its range largely skips the Andean cordillera – though it is found in some lower-lying ranges, like the Serranía de las Quinchas in Colombia – and continues west of the Andes into southern Central America to Nicaragua and Honduras.
White-fronted Nunbird near Mitú, Vaupés, Comunidad Tukano Santa Cruz Colombia,Comunidad Tukano,Geotagged,Mitu,Monasa morphoeus,Vaupés,White-fronted nunbird,Winter

Habitat

Its natural habitats are subtropical and tropical moist lowland forests and subtropical and tropical moist montane forests; while it requires woodland of sufficient extent to occur in any one region, it is not dependent on primary forest and will tolerate some degree of habitat alteration. It is assessed as Least Concern by the IUCN due to its wide range.

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Taxonomy
KingdomAnimalia
DivisionChordata
ClassAves
OrderPiciformes
FamilyBucconidae
GenusMonasa
SpeciesM. morphoeus