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Posadas Amazonas, Madre De Dios, Peru
Monasa flavirostris

Identification

23–25 cm

  • Black overall plumage
  • White lesser wing coverts

Distribution

South America: found in the Amazon basin of south-eastern Colombia, Venezuela, Ecuador, Peru, northern Bolivia and western Amazonian Brazil.

Taxonomy

This is a monotypic species[1].

Habitat

Humid transitional and secondary forests.

Behaviour

Diet

Not well recorded, but believed to consist of insects.

References

  1. Clements, J. F., T. S. Schulenberg, M. J. Iliff, D. Roberson, T. A. Fredericks, B. L. Sullivan, and C. L. Wood. 2014. The eBird/Clements checklist of birds of the world: Version 6.9., with updates to August 2014. Downloaded from http://www.birds.cornell.edu/clementschecklist/download/
  2. Avibase
  3. Handbook of the Birds of the World Alive (retrieved January 2015)

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