The Nunbird Chorus

White-fronted nunbird (photo from Wikimedia Commons)

27 December 2024

White-fronted nunbirds (Monasa morphoeus) are at their most interesting when they sing in “group choruses of loud gobbling, barking notes, sustained for up to 20 minutes at a time, chiefly at the beginning and end of day.” — quoted from Birds of the World.

video embedded from ravitime nature status on YouTube

If you wanted to hear them in the wild, go to these regions of Central and South America.

Range of white-fronted nunbird (image from Wikimedia Commons)

p.s. “White-fronted” describes birds whose foreheads are white such as the greater white-fronted goose and white-fronted nunbirds.

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