#nunbirds

[keeskiwi]

"To deliver a chorus, the 3 or 4 adults of a family…would gather in a compact group well up in the forest…perch a few inches apart, often in a row…tilt their heads upward and cry together in loud, ringing, almost soprano tones, with so much gusto that their whole bodies shook"

Reading Alexander F. Skutch’s 1969 account on white-faced nunbirds and was just so charmed by this description of singing together, haha.

[thalassarche]

Yellow-billed Nunbird (Monasa flavirostris) - photo by Frank Metcalf

[thalassarche]

White-fronted Nunbird (Monasa morphoeus) - photo by Edgar Méndez

[thalassarche]

Black-fronted Nunbird (Monasa nigrifrons) - photo by David Beadle

[acryptozoo]

There are so many bird species named after christian ranks, like seriously.