World Species : Monasa nigrifrons (Black-fronted Nunbird)

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Monasa nigrifrons (Black-fronted Nunbird)

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Synonyms: Bucco nigrifrons

Wikipedia Abstract

The black-fronted nunbird (Monasa nigrifrons) is a species of bird in the Bucconidae family, the puffbirds. It is found in Amazonian Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, and Peru; also regions of eastern and southeastern Brazil.Its natural habitats are subtropical and tropical moist lowland forests, subtropical and tropical swamps, and heavily degraded former forest. The black-fronted nunbird has a black body and bright red-orange bill. It is found in small gregarious groups in lower to mid-level forests.

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Infraspecies

Monasa nigrifrons canescens
Monasa nigrifrons nigrifrons

EDGE Analysis

Uniqueness Scale: Similiar (0)

Unique (100)

Uniqueness & Vulnerability Scale: Similiar & Secure (0)

Unique & Vulnerable (100)

ED Score: 13.6283

EDGE Score: 2.68296

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Attributes

Adult Weight ^[1]	81 grams

Diet ^[2]	Carnivore (Invertebrates), Carnivore (Vertebrates)
Diet - Ectothermic ^[2]	30 %
Diet - Invertibrates ^[2]	70 %
Forages - Mid-High ^[2]	20 %
Forages - Understory ^[2]	40 %
Forages - Ground ^[2]	40 %

Clutch Size ^[3]	3

Ecoregions

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Name	Countries	Ecozone	Biome
Alta Paraná Atlantic forests	Brazil, Paraguay, Argentina	Neotropic	Tropical and Subtropical Moist Broadleaf Forests
Atlantic dry forests	Brazil	Neotropic	Tropical and Subtropical Dry Broadleaf Forests
Beni savanna	Bolivia	Neotropic	Tropical and Subtropical Grasslands, Savannas, and Shrublands
Caqueta moist forests	Brazil, Columbia	Neotropic	Tropical and Subtropical Moist Broadleaf Forests
Cerrado	Brazil, Bolivia, Paraguay	Neotropic	Tropical and Subtropical Grasslands, Savannas, and Shrublands
Dry Chaco	Bolivia, Paraguay, Argentina	Neotropic	Tropical and Subtropical Dry Broadleaf Forests
Gurupa varzea	Brazil	Neotropic	Tropical and Subtropical Moist Broadleaf Forests
Iquitos varzea	Brazil, Peru, Bolivia	Neotropic	Tropical and Subtropical Moist Broadleaf Forests
Juruá-Purus moist forests	Brazil	Neotropic	Tropical and Subtropical Moist Broadleaf Forests
Madeira-Tapajós moist forests	Brazil, Bolivia	Neotropic	Tropical and Subtropical Moist Broadleaf Forests
Monte Alegre varzea	Brazil	Neotropic	Tropical and Subtropical Moist Broadleaf Forests
Napo moist forests	Colombia, Venezuela, Peru	Neotropic	Tropical and Subtropical Moist Broadleaf Forests
Pantanal	Brazil, Bolivia, Paraguay	Neotropic	Flooded Grasslands and Savannas
Pernambuco coastal forests	Brazil	Neotropic	Tropical and Subtropical Moist Broadleaf Forests
Purus varzea	Brazil	Neotropic	Tropical and Subtropical Moist Broadleaf Forests
Purus-Madeira moist forests	Brazil	Neotropic	Tropical and Subtropical Moist Broadleaf Forests
Serra do Mar coastal forests	Brazil	Neotropic	Tropical and Subtropical Moist Broadleaf Forests
Solimões-Japurá moist forest	Brazil, Colombia, Peru	Neotropic	Tropical and Subtropical Moist Broadleaf Forests
Southwest Amazon moist forests	Peru, Brazil, Bolivia	Neotropic	Tropical and Subtropical Moist Broadleaf Forests
Tapajós-Xingu moist forests	Brazil	Neotropic	Tropical and Subtropical Moist Broadleaf Forests
Tocantins/Pindare moist forests	Brazil	Neotropic	Tropical and Subtropical Moist Broadleaf Forests
Ucayali moist forests	Peru	Neotropic	Tropical and Subtropical Moist Broadleaf Forests
Xingu-Tocantins-Araguaia moist forests	Brazil	Neotropic	Tropical and Subtropical Moist Broadleaf Forests

Protected Areas

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Biodiversity Hotspots

Name	Location	Endemic	Species	Website
Atlantic Forest	Argentina, Brazil, Paraguay, Uruguay	No
Cerrado	Brazil	No

Consumers

Parasitized by
Subulura travassosi <Unverified Name>	^[4]

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Citations

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♦ ¹Weske, JS 1972. The distribution of the avifauna in the Apurimac Valley of Peru with respect to environmental gradients, habitat, and related species. Ph.D. diss., Univ. Oklahoma, Norman, Oklahoma
♦ ²Hamish Wilman, Jonathan Belmaker, Jennifer Simpson, Carolina de la Rosa, Marcelo M. Rivadeneira, and Walter Jetz. 2014. EltonTraits 1.0: Species-level foraging attributes of the world's birds and mammals. Ecology 95:2027
♦ ³Jetz W, Sekercioglu CH, Böhning-Gaese K (2008) The Worldwide Variation in Avian Clutch Size across Species and Space PLoS Biol 6(12): e303. doi:10.1371/journal.pbio.0060303
♦ ⁴Gibson, D. I., Bray, R. A., & Harris, E. A. (Compilers) (2005). Host-Parasite Database of the Natural History Museum, London

Ecoregions provided by World Wide Fund For Nature (WWF). WildFinder: Online database of species distributions, ver. 01.06 Wildfinder Database

Biodiversity Hotspots provided by Critical Ecosystem Partnership Fund

Abstract provided by DBpedia licensed under a Creative Commons License

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Species taxanomy provided by GBIF Secretariat (2022). GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei accessed via GBIF.org on 2023-06-13; License: CC BY 4.0