Collared Puffbird (Bucco capensis)

Family
Bucconidae (Puffbirds)

Size
17.50 - 19 cm

First Described (Guide)
Linnaeus, 1766

Habitat
Subtropical and tropical lowland dry shrubland, lowland moist forest. From sea-level - 1,700 m.

Range (Guide)

Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, French Guiana, Guyana, Peru, Suriname, Venezuela.

Amazon Basin from eastern Ecuador and south-eastern Colombia east to southern Venezuela, the Guianas and northern Brazil (east to Bel�m), and south to north-eastern Peru and northern Mato Grosso.

Rarity Status
Currently this species is not classified as a rarity in this country OR information has not been updated.

Population
Estimated population is unknown (2010).

Status LC
For more information see BirdLife International Species Factsheet.

Voice
Xeno-Canto Sound Files (more (14)...)

Collared Puffbird (Bucco capensis) [XC274967]
by Phil Stouffer from Morona-Santiago: Taisha, Ecuador (duet)

Collared Puffbird (Bucco capensis) [XC394439]
by Rolf A. de By from BDFFP, Amazonas state, Brazil (song)

Subspecies
Birds from south-eastern Colombia to Ecuador and eastern Peru sometimes treated as subspecies dugandi, but this form is doubtfully distinct.

No subspecies.

References
See References.

Files:

JPG files for Collared Puffbird (Bucco capensis) - 10 files

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