- Lanceolated Monklet
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Lanceolated Monklet Peru Conservation status Scientific classification Kingdom: Animalia Phylum: Chordata Class: Aves Order: Piciformes Family: Bucconidae Genus: Micromonacha
Sclater, 1881Species: 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
- ^ 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.
- BirdLife International 2004. Micromonacha lanceolata. 2006 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Downloaded on 24 July 2007.
External links
- Lanceolated Monklet videos on the Internet Bird Collection
- Lanceolated Monklet photo gallery VIREO Photo-High Res
- Photo-Medium Res; Article www.tekipaki.jp–"Motmots to Puffbirds"
- Photo-Very High Res-(Close-up); Article surfbirds
- Photo-High Res-(flickr); Article
Categories:- IUCN Red List least concern species
- Bucconidae
- Birds of Brazil
- Birds of Colombia
- Birds of Peru
- Birds of Ecuador
- Birds of the Amazon Basin
- Birds of Panama
- Birds of Costa Rica
- Piciformes stubs
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