Spotted Puffbird (Bucco tamatia)

Order: Galbuliformes | Family: Bucconidae  | IUCN Status: Least Concern

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Age: Adult | Sex: Unknown | Loc. Northeast Peru

spotted_puffbird
Age: Adult | Sex: Unknown | Loc. Northeast Peru

spotted_puffbird
Age: Adult | Sex: Unknown | Loc. Southeast Peru

spotted_puffbird
Age: Adult | Sex: Unknown | Loc. Amazonian Brazil


Identification & Behavior: ~18.3 cm (7.2 in). The Spotted Puffbird has white underparts with large black spots from the chest down. They have conspicuous black stripes on the sides of a pale neck. The throat and the cap are rufous/orange and the back is brown. Distinguished from similar Chestnut-capped Puffbird by white underparts with large black spots, lack of a solid black neck band and conspicuous black stripes on the sides of the neck. Also, see Collared Puffbird.

Status: The Spotted Puffbird is uncommon to rare in the midstory of varzea forests in the Amazonian lowlands of mostly the department of Loreto. Another apparently isolated population is found in the Department of Madre Dios. It also occurs in Co, Ec, Br, and Bo.

Name in Spanish: Buco Moteado.

Sub-species: Spotted Puffbird (Bucco tamatia pulmentum) P. L. Sclater, 1856.

Meaning of Name: Bucco: L. bucca= cheek. tamatia= (Tupi) specific indigenous name for a spotted bird.

See more of the Family Bucconidae   peru aves

Distribution Map
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References:

    • Species range based on: Schulenberg, T. S., D. F. Stotz, and L. Rico. 2006. Distribution maps of the birds of Peru, version 1.0. Environment, Culture & Conservation (ECCo). The Field Museum.  http://fm2.fieldmuseum.org/uw_test/birdsofperu on 11/09/2014.