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Genus: Monasa (4 species)


Black Nunbird
Black Nunbird (Monasa atra)
Range: SA: n Amazonia
Manaus, Brazil   		   
Photograph by Tom Friedel   © All Rights Reserved.
Similar to the Black-fronted Nunbird but with white in the wings and little range overlap.

Yellow-billed Nunbird
Yellow-billed Nunbird (Monasa flavirostris)
Range: SA: w Amazonia
Bosque Bavaria, Villavicencio, Colombia   		   
Photograph by Tom Friedel   © All Rights Reserved.
Perhaps the least common nunbird.

White-fronted Nunbird
White-fronted Nunbird (Monasa morphoeus peruana)
Range: MA, SA: Honduras to Amazonia and se Brazil
Mitu, Vaupes, Colombia   		   
Photograph by Tom Friedel   © All Rights Reserved.

White-fronted Nunbird
White-fronted Nunbird (Monasa morphoeus pallescens)
Range: MA, SA: Honduras to Amazonia and se Brazil
Darien National Park, Panama
  Silver-winged pallescens race. 		   
Photograph by Tom Friedel   © All Rights Reserved.



Black-fronted Nunbird
Black-fronted Nunbird (Monasa nigrifrons nigrifrons)
Range: SA: s, w Amazonia and c SA
Puerto Nariño, Amazonas, Colombia
  All black with red bill. 		   
Photograph by Tom Friedel   © All Rights Reserved.

Eating large bug.

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