Lanceolated Monklet

Lanceolated Monklet
Lanceolated Monklet
Peru
Conservation status
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves
Order: Piciformes
Family: Bucconidae
Genus: Micromonacha
Sclater, 1881
Species: M. lanceolata
Binomial name
Micromonacha lanceolata
(Deville, 1849)

The Lanceolated Monklet (Micromonacha lanceolata) is a species of bird in the Bucconidae family, the puffbirds. It is the only member of the genus Micromonacha.[1]

It is found in Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Costa Rica, Ecuador, Panama, and Peru. In the western Amazon Basin, it ranges from the Purus River in the southwest Basin, Amazonas state to the Japurá River of southern Colombia in the northwest.

Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests and subtropical or tropical moist montane forests.

It is a small round brownish bird, short and narrow-tailed with a stout medium length black bill. It is medium brown with reddish brown highlighting around the eyes and forehead, and a buff-white chest, streaked vertically with large gray-black stripings. It has black eyes and a small buff eye ring. Wing feather-tips are flecked with white.

References

  1. ^ Monroe, Burt L.; Sibley, Charles G. (1997). A World Checklist of Birds. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press. p. 33. ISBN 0-300-07083-7. http://books.google.com/books?id=3M7f_Y2zWDwC&pg=PA33&dq=lanceolated+monklet&hl=en&ei=pwazTtLlBuTh0wG6mPm-BA&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=5&ved=0CEEQ6AEwBA#v=onepage&q=lanceolated%20monklet&f=false. 

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