Grey-cheeked Nunlet
Nonnula frontalis (Sclater, PL, 1854)
Bucconidae — Puffbirds
Grey-cheeked Nunlet, Nonnula frontalis, is a bird of Middle America and South America, occurring in Panama and Colombia. It belongs to the puffbird family, Bucconidae, in the order Piciformes. First described by P. L. Sclater in 1854, it is a small forest bird with a restricted range from central Panama to north-central Colombia. It uses moist and humid forests, gallery forest and thickets, and is especially associated with riverside woodland. It usually stays in the lower forest layers, though it can reach the subcanopy.
- Order
- Piciformes
- Family
- Bucconidae — Puffbirds
- Breeding range
- Middle America, South America: Panama and Colombia
