White-fronted Nunbird (Monasa morphoeus)

Other Names (World)
White-fronted Nunbird, White-fronted Nunlet

Family
Bucconidae (Puffbirds)

Size
27 - 28 cm

First Described (Guide)
(Hahn & K�ster, 1823)

Habitat
Subtropical and tropical lowland moist forest. From sea-level - 1,350 m.

Range (Guide)

Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Costa Rica, Ecuador, Honduras, Nicaragua, Panama, Peru, Venezuela.

Population
Estimated population is unknown (2010).

Status LC
For more information see BirdLife International Species Factsheet.

Voice
Xeno-Canto Sound Files (more (33)...)

White-fronted Nunbird (Monasa morphoeus) [XC655680]
by Matheus Fernandes Moraes Silva from South of Ass. San Luis, San Ignacio de Velasco (near Retiro), Jos\u00e9 Miguel de Velasco, Santa Cruz Department, Bolivia (song)

White-fronted Nunbird (Monasa morphoeus) [XC754105]
by JAYRSON ARAUJO DE OLIVEIRA from Sinop, Mato Grosso, Estrada Clotilde, Brazil (song)

Subspecies
Forms a superspecies with Black Nunbird (Monasa atra) and Black-fronted Nunbird (Monasa nigrifrons). Nominate and subspecies grandior and fidelis have been considered three distinct species by some authors. Birds from north-eastern Bolivia sometimes separated as subspecies boliviana, but apparently indistinguishable from peruana.

The following 7 subspecies are recognised:

grandior Sclater, PL & Salvin, 1868 - Eastern Honduras and eastern Nicaragua to western Panama.
fidelis Nelson, 1912 - Caribbean eastern Panama and north-western Colombia (east to southern C�rdoba).
pallescens Cassin, 1860 - South-eastern Panama to western Colombia (south to upper R San Juan).
sclateri Ridgway, 1912 - Northern and central Colombia (Magdalena Valley south to northern Tolima).
peruana Sclater, PL, 1856 - Eastern Ecuador, south-eastern Colombia and southern Venezuela south to eastern Peru, upper Amazonian Brazil (east to R Tapaj�s) and north-eastern Bolivia.
rikeri Ridgway, 1912 - Amazonian Brazil from R Tapaj�s east to Piau��.
morphoeus (Hahn & K�ster, 1823) - Eastern Brazil (Bahia south to Rio de Janeiro).

References
See References.

Files:

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