Kingdom Animalia Scientific name Micromonacha lanceolata Higher classification Micromonacha Order Piciformes | Family Bucconidae Phylum Chordata Rank Species | |
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Genus Micromonacha
P.L. Sclater, 1881 Similar Chestnut‑capped puffbird, White‑fronted nunbird, Black‑streaked puffbird, Brown nunlet, Barred puffbird | ||
Lanceolated monklet micromonacha lanceolata anchicaya birding aves del choco
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.
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- Lanceolated monklet micromonacha lanceolata anchicaya birding aves del choco
- Micromonacha lanceolata lanceolated monklet apia risaralda
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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 and tropical moist lowland forests and subtropical and 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.