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| The Neotropical family Bucconidae includes nunbirds, nunlets, and puffbirds. Numbirds are rather vocal, some favor forest edges, and are active. Puffbirds and nunlets are more reclusive interior forest species found from the understory to the forest canopy. They are notorious for being difficult to see due to the lethargic lifestyle. Foraging birds spend long periods of time motionless waiting for prey. Then they fly to branches or the ground to catch large insects or small invertabrates. Some Puffbirds have been observed to take small birds. | Numbirds and nunlets have a typical shape with relatively long body and longish tail and proportional head and bill. Puffbirds are different in having big heads, no apparent neck but a continuum form the head to the body and a thick bill slightly hooked that tapers in the tip. Puffbirds have rounded wings and a soft tail and a puffy plumage, hence the name puffbirds. There are eight genera and 23 species of Nunbirds, Nunlets and Puffbirds known to occur in Peru. Photo: (left) Collared Puffbird. ©Roos Tsai, (right) Black-fronted Nunmbird. ©Jo Richmond. |
| Family BUCCONIDAE | ||
| Puffbirds, Nunbirds, Nunlets | Bucos | |
| White-necked Puffbird | Buco de Cuello Blanco | Notharchus hyperrhynchus |
| Brown-banded Puffbird | Buco Pardo Bandeado | Notharchus ordii |
| Pied Puffbird | Buco Pinto | Notharchus tectus |
| Chestnut-capped Puffbird | Buco de Gorro Castaño | Bucco macrodactylus |
| Spotted Puffbird | Buco Moteado | Bucco tamatia |
| Collared Puffbird | Buco Acollarado | Bucco capensis |
| Barred Puffbird | Buco Barrado | Nystalus radiatus |
| Striolated Puffbird | Buco Estriolado | Nystalus striolatus |
| White-eared Puffbird | Buco de Oreja Blanca | Nystalus chacuru |
| White-chested Puffbird | Buco de Pecho Blanco | Malacoptila fusca |
| Semicollared Puffbird | Buco Semiacollarado | Malacoptila semicincta |
| Rufous-necked Puffbird | Buco de Cuello Rufo | Malacoptila rufa |
| White-whiskered Puffbird | Buco de Bigote Blanco | Malacoptila panamensis |
| Black-streaked Puffbird | Buco Listado de Negro | Malacoptila fulvogularis |
| Lanceolated Monklet | Monjecito Lanceolado | Micromonacha lanceolata |
| Rusty-breasted Nunlet | Monjita de Pecho Rojizo | Nonnula rubecula |
| Fulvous-chinned Nunlet | Monjita de Barbilla Leonada | Nonnula sclateri |
| Brown Nunlet | Monjita Parda | Nonnula brunnea |
| Rufous-capped Nunlet | Monjita de Gorro Rufo | Nonnula ruficapilla |
| White-faced Nunbird | Monja de Cara Blanca | Hapaloptila castanea |
| Black-fronted Nunbird | Monja de Frente Negra | Monasa nigrifrons |
| White-fronted Nunbird | Monja de Frente Blanca | Monasa morphoeus |
| Yellow-billed Nunbird | Monja de Pico Amarillo | Monasa flavirostris |
| Swallow-wing | Buco Golondrina | Chelidoptera tenebrosa |
 GALBULIDAE: Jacamars – Jacamares |
CAPITONIDAE: Barbets – Barbudos |