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[HBW - BirdLife (v3)] |
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| Species Details [Taxonomy: HBW - BirdLife (v3)] |
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Sunbittern* |
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Eurypyga helias |
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Description (10)
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Sunbittern
© nejohnston.org
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Family
Eurypygidae (Sunbittern)
Size
45 cm
First Described (Guide)
(Pallas, 1781)
Habitat
Subtropical and tropical swamp forest, rivers, streams. From sea-level - 1,830 m.
Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Costa Rica, Ecuador, French Guiana, Guatemala, Guyana, Honduras, Mexico, Nicaragua, Panama, Peru, Suriname, Venezuela.
Population
Estimated population is 500,000 - 4,999,999 (2010).
Status LC
For more information see BirdLife International Species Factsheet.
Voice
Xeno-Canto Sound Files (more (55)...)
Sunbittern (Eurypyga helias) [XC447193]
by William Adsett from Parque Zoobot\u00e2nico da Universidade Federal do Acre, Brazil (song)
Sunbittern (Eurypyga helias) [XC85135]
by Joe Klaiber from Pousada Araras, Pantanal, MT, Brazil (call)
Young
Precocial.
Subspecies
The following 3 subspecies are recognised:
- helias (Pallas, 1781) - Colombia, Venezuela and the Guianas south through Amazonia to eastern Bolivia and central Brazil.
- major Hartlaub, 1844 - Guatemala to western Ecuador. Possibly also southern Mexico.
- meridionalis von Berlepsch & Stolzmann, 1902 - South-central Peru (Junín and Cuzco).
References
See References.
Files:
BirdLife International
For more information about the Sunbittern see...  BirdLife International Species Factsheet.
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