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monasa nigrifrons

  1. Black-fronted Nunbird

    Black-fronted Nunbird

  2. Black-fronted Nunbird

    Black-fronted Nunbird

  3. Black-fronted Nunbird

    Black-fronted Nunbird

    Another lifer on my little trip. From what I saw, they are quite common on that region.
  4. Black-fronted Nunbird

    Black-fronted Nunbird

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  5. Black-Fronted Nun Bird1 20180809_Sani Lodge Ecuador.jpg

    Black-Fronted Nun Bird1 20180809_Sani Lodge Ecuador.jpg

    This was a new family, let alone species for me. Seen in the trees around the beautiful Sani Lodge in the Amazonian forest in Ecuador
  6. Black-fronted Nunbird

    Black-fronted Nunbird

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  7. Black fronted nunbird

    Black fronted nunbird

    I spotted this cool bird in the Colombian Amazon. He was snacking on what looked like a grasshopper. He was so high up in the trees so this was the best shot I could get.
  8. Black-fronted Nunbird

    Black-fronted Nunbird

  9. Black-fronted Nunbird

    Black-fronted Nunbird

    Nunbirds are graceful members of the Puffbird family (Bucconidae) formerly included with woodpeckers in the Piciformes but currently classified with the Jacamars in the Galbuliformes. As seen here, they sit more upright than other puffbirds. The Black-fronted Nunbird is endemic to the Amazonian...
  10. Black-fronted nunbirds

    Black-fronted nunbirds

  11. Black-fronted Nunbird

    Black-fronted Nunbird

    We arrived around lunch time, and after we had eaten Octavio suggested that going for a walk might be fruitful. The rest of our group looked at him as if he was insane - it was the middle of the day and blisteringly hot (I found out later that the maximal temperature during this period was about...
  12. Chora-chuva-preto

    Chora-chuva-preto

    Nome Cientfico Monasa nigrifrons (Spix, 1824) Nome em Ingls Black-fronted Nunbird
  13. Black-fronted Nunbird

    Black-fronted Nunbird

    Black-fronted Nunbird (Monasa nigrifrons supsp. nigrifrons) Along the banks of Ro Cuiab, south of Porto Jofre, Pantanal, Mato Grosso, Brazil. Riverine with some cerrado species of vegetation. Elevation ca. 128 m (420 ft).
  14. Black-fronted nunbird

    Black-fronted nunbird

  15. Black-fronted Nunbird

    Black-fronted Nunbird

    A fantastic bird that came very close to my veranda
  16. Black-fronted Nunbird

    Black-fronted Nunbird

  17. Black-fronted Nunbird

    Black-fronted Nunbird

    Very beautiful bird.
  18. Black-fronted Nunbird PERU'13 SER

    Black-fronted Nunbird PERU'13 SER

  19. Black-fronted Nunbird

    Black-fronted Nunbird

    Black-fronted Nunbird (Monasa nigrifrons) Los Amigos Research Station (CICRA). West of Puerto Maldonado in Madre de Dios Region, Manu Province, Peru. The habitat is River-edge forest, a lowland rainforest situated on a high terrace along the banks of Rio Madre de Dios and Rio Los Amigos which...
  20. Black-Fronted Nunbird Peru

    Black-Fronted Nunbird Peru

    These birds were fairly common and conspicuous in Peruvian Amazonia. Loved them.
  21. Black-Fronted Nunbird Peru

    Black-Fronted Nunbird Peru

    These guys, in the Puffbird family, were fairly common during my trip to Peruvian Amazonia. We also saw the congeneric White Fronted - and Yellow Billed Nunbirds. Beautiful, all of them.
  22. Black Fronted Nunbird

    Black Fronted Nunbird

  23. Black-Fronted Nunbird

    Black-Fronted Nunbird

  24. Nunbird portrait

    Nunbird portrait

    Never got tired of these confiding birds.
  25. Black-fronted Nunbird

    Black-fronted Nunbird

    A fairly common and often approachable bird in the Amazon. This bird was photographed at Cumaceba lodge near Iquitos.
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