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Sooty-capped Puffbird
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Sooty-capped Puffbird
Bucco noanamae
The sooty-capped puffbird (Bucco noanamae) is a species of bird in the family Bucconidae, the puffbirds, nunlets, and nunbirds. It is endemic to Colombia.
From the article Sooty-capped puffbird on Wikipedia (CC BY-SA), quoted section by section
Description
The sooty-capped puffbird is about 18 cm (7.1 in) long. Its crown and nape are blackish to grayish black. It has a bold white supercilium that grays to the rear and a wide black line through and below the eye. Its upperparts and rather short tail are dark brown. It has a white chin, a wide black band across the chest, and a buffy white belly and vent with black scallops. The bill is black, the eye red, and the feet pale gray.
Range & habitat
The sooty-capped puffbird is found only along the coast of Colombia from the Gulf of Urabá south to the San Juan River. It inhabits humid and wet primary and secondary forest and nearby unforested areas. It also occurs in scrublands. In all areas it tends to stay low in the vegetation. In elevation it ranges from sea level to 100 m (330 ft).
Wikipedia: “Distribution and habitat”
What it does
The sooty-capped puffbird hunts by sallying from a low perch to pluck large insects from foliage. Other details of its diet are not known.
Wikipedia: “Feeding”
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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 72575.