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Black-fronted Nunbird
Monasa nigrifrons (Spix, 1824)
Bucconidae — Puffbirds
Black-fronted Nunbird, Monasa nigrifrons, is a bird of south, west Amazonia and central South America, breeding in Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador and Peru. It belongs to the Bucconidae family within the Piciformes. The nominate form is widespread across the Amazon Basin, while M. n. canescens is restricted to eastern Bolivia. It lives in river and lake edges, bamboo, várzea, igapó, gallery forest, secondary growth and floodplain forest, and avoids terra firme forest. It occurs from sea level to 1,000 m.
- Order
- Piciformes
- Family
- Bucconidae — Puffbirds
- Breeding range
- South America: s, w Amazonia and c SA
