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White-chested Puffbird - BirdForum Opus

Photo © by Thibaud
Pasco, Peru, 24 August, 2020
Malacoptila fusca


Identification

18 cm (7 in); a medium-sized puffbird
Heavily streaked, with a small white collar. The base of the bill if prominently orange.

Similar Species

Very similar to the Semicollared Puffbird (without the rufous nuchal collar), the ranges of the two species are separated by the Rió Ucayali and are not known to overlap.

Distribution

South America: found from South East Colombia to eastern Peru, the Guianas and western Amazonian Brazil.

Taxonomy

This is a monotypic species[1].

Habitat

Tropical lowland evergreen forests, where they occupy the understorey.

Behaviour

Diet

Their main diet consists of insects such as spiders and caterpillars. There is little else known.

Breeding

There is very little detail; it appears they excavate a tunnel in a sloping bank.

References

  1. Clements, J. F., T. S. Schulenberg, M. J. Iliff, S. M. Billerman, T. A. Fredericks, B. L. Sullivan, and C. L. Wood. 2019. The eBird/Clements Checklist of Birds of the World: v2019. Downloaded from http://www.birds.cornell.edu/clementschecklist/download/
  2. Schulenberg, T. S. and H. Batcheller (2020). White-chested Puffbird (Malacoptila fusca), version 1.0. In Birds of the World (T. S. Schulenberg, Editor). Cornell Lab of Ornithology, Ithaca, NY, USA. https://doi.org/10.2173/bow.whcpuf1.01

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