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Yellow-billed Nunbird
Monasa flavirostris Strickland, 1850
Bucconidae — Puffbirds
Yellow-billed Nunbird, Monasa flavirostris, is a bird of western Amazonia in South America, recorded from Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador and Peru. It belongs to the puffbird family, Bucconidae, and was described by Strickland in 1850. It is a monotypic species. The adult is mainly sooty black, with a very dark grey belly, greenish black tail, white lesser wing coverts that show as spots on the folded wing, a yellow bill that is shorter than in other birds of its genus, dark eyes and blackish feet. Immatures are duller and show less white.
- Order
- Piciformes
- Family
- Bucconidae — Puffbirds
- Breeding range
- South America: w Amazonia
