The Lanceolated Monklet (Micromonacha lanceolata) is a species of bird

Bird

Birds are feathered, winged, bipedal, endothermic , egg-laying, vertebrate animals. Around 10,000 living species and 188 families makes them the most speciose class of tetrapod vertebrates. They inhabit ecosystems across the globe, from the Arctic to the Antarctic. Extant birds range in size from...

 in the Bucconidae family, the puffbird

Puffbird

The puffbirds and their relatives in the near passerine family Bucconidae are tropical birds breeding from South America up to Mexico.They are related to the jacamars, but lack the iridescent colours of that family. They are mainly brown, rufous or grey, with large heads and flattened bills with a...

s. It is the only member of the genus Micromonacha.

It is found in Bolivia

Bolivia

Bolivia officially known as Plurinational State of Bolivia , is a landlocked country in central South America. It is the poorest country in South America...

, Brazil

Brazil

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, Colombia

Colombia

Colombia, officially the Republic of Colombia , is a unitary constitutional republic comprising thirty-two departments. The country is located in northwestern South America, bordered to the east by Venezuela and Brazil; to the south by Ecuador and Peru; to the north by the Caribbean Sea; to the...

, Costa Rica

Costa Rica

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, Ecuador

Ecuador

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, Panama

Panama

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, and Peru

Peru

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. In the western Amazon Basin

Amazon Basin

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, it ranges from the Purus River in the southwest Basin, Amazonas state to the Japurá River

Japurá River

The Japurá River or Caquetá River is a river about long rising as the Caquetá River in the Andes in the Southwest of Colombia. It flows southeast into Brazil, where it is called the Japurá. The Japurá enters the Amazon River through a network of channels...

 of southern Colombia in the northwest.

Its natural habitat

Habitat

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s are subtropical or tropical moist lowland forest

Forest

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s and subtropical or 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.

External links

• Lanceolated Monklet videos on the Internet Bird Collection
• Lanceolated Monklet photo gallery VIREO Photo-High Res
• Photo-Medium Res; Article www.tekipaki.jp–"Motmots to Puffbirds"
• Photo-Very High Res-(Close-up); Article surfbirds
• Photo-High Res-(flickr); Article