Nombre en español: Monjita Piquirroja
Nombre en ingles: Black-fronted Nunbird
Nombre científico: Monasa nigrifrons
Familia: Bucconidae
La monja unicolor o moja de frente negra (Monasa nigrifrons) es una especie de ave en la familia Bucconidae.
Información general
Se encuentra en la Amazonía de Bolivia, Brasil, Colombia, Ecuador y Perú, y también a las regiones del este y sureste de Brasil. Su hábitat natural son los bosques húmedos subtropicales o tropicales de tierras bajas, pantanos tropicales o subtropicales y bosques antiguos muy degradados.
La monja de frente negra es un ave llamativa, el cuerpo es negro con el pico color rojo anaranjado. Se encuentra en pequeños grupos gregarios en la parte baja a nivel medio de los bosques.
Black-fronted nunbird
The black-fronted nunbird (Monasa nigrifrons) is a species of bird in the family Bucconidae, the puffbirds.
It is found in Amazonian Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, and Peru; also regions of eastern and southeastern Brazil. Its natural habitats are subtropical and tropical moist lowland forests, subtropical and tropical swamps, and heavily degraded former forest.
The black-fronted nunbird has a black body and bright red-orange bill. It is found in small gregarious groups in lower to mid-level forests.
Distribution
The black-fronted nunbird is found principally in the Amazon Basin south of the Amazon River. It also occurs at the confluence of the Rio Negro (north of the Amazon) and upstream along the Amazon itself. Its range extends south and east beyond the Tocantins River towards the Cerrado region of east-central Brazil; it is also found in the Pantanal, though not the very southern portion.
The southwest and western regions of black-fronted nunbird’s range occur in Amazonian Bolivia, Peru, Ecuador, and southern Colombia, with the Amazonian Colombian region being the southwest portion of the entire northwestern Amazon region. The species’ range is mostly contiguous, although there are two localized populations in eastern coastal Brazil: the northern population in Alagoas state, and the southern locale in Rio de Janeiro state.
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