Chestnut-headed Nunlet

Nonnula amaurocephala Chapman, 1921

Chestnut-headed Nunlet, Nonnula amaurocephala, is a bird of north-west Brazil in South America, where it is found in a small part of Amazonas state. It belongs to the Bucconidae family and was described by Chapman in 1921. Its breeding range is limited to this region. The bird has a bright rufous head, upper mantle, breast and upper belly, with dull brown back, wings and tail, an olive-tinged rump, a whitish lower belly, a mostly black bill, red eye and lead-grey feet. It lives in the understory of seasonally flooded igapó forest.

Order

Piciformes

Family

Bucconidae — Puffbirds

Breeding range

South America: nw Brazil