#lanceolated monklet

[triruntu]

#599, a lanceolated monklet! I adore the shape of this bird.

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[thalassarche]

Lanceolated Monklet (Micromonacha lanceolata) - photo by Walter Baliero C.

[fullfrontalbirds]

Lanceolated Monklet (Micromonacha lanceolata)

© Simon Colenutt

[astronomy-to-zoology]

Lanceolated Monklet (Micromonacha lanceolata)

...a small species of puffbird (Bucconidae), a group of birds allies with the woodpeckers and their allies, which occurs in Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Costa Rica, Ecuador, Panama, and Peru. In the western Amazon River Basin, it ranges from the Purus River in the southwest, the state of Amazonas to the Japura River in the northwest. Lanceolated monklets typically inhabit subtropical and tropical and sub/tropical montante forests.

Classification

Animalia-Chordata-Aves-Piciformes-Bucconidae-Micromonacha-M. lanceolata

Image: Joel Rosenthal