Lanceolated monklet

Lanceolated monklet
	Peru
Conservation status
	; Least Concern (IUCN 3.1)
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Aves
Order:	Piciformes
Family:	Bucconidae
Genus:	Micromonacha; P.L. Sclater, 1881
Species:	Micromonacha
Binomial name
	Micromonacha; (Deville, 1849)

The lanceolated monklet (Micromonacha lanceolata) is a species of bird in the Bucconidae family, the puffbirds. It is the only member of the genus Micromonacha.^[2]

It is found in Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Costa Rica, Ecuador, Panama, and Peru. In the western Amazon Basin, it ranges from the Purus River in the southwest Basin, Amazonas state to the Japurá River of southern Colombia in the northwest.

Its natural habitats are subtropical and tropical moist lowland forests and subtropical and tropical moist montane forests.

It is a small, round, brownish bird, short and narrow-tailed with a stout medium-length black bill. It is medium brown with reddish brown highlighting around the eyes and forehead, and a buff-white chest, streaked vertically with large gray-black stripings. It has black eyes and a small buff eye ring. Wing feather-tips are flecked with white.

References

^ Template:IUCN
^ Monroe, Burt L.; Sibley, Charles G. (1997). A World Checklist of Birds. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press. p. 33. ISBN 0-300-07083-7.

External links

Lanceolated monklet videos on the Internet Bird Collection
Lanceolated monklet photo gallery VIREO Photo-High Res

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[1] Template:IUCN

[2] Monroe, Burt L.; Sibley, Charles G. (1997). A World Checklist of Birds. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press. p. 33. ISBN 0-300-07083-7.

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