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Brown-banded Puffbird
Notharchus ordii (Cassin, 1851)
Bucconidae — Puffbirds
Brown-banded Puffbird, Notharchus ordii, is a bird of the Bucconidae family in northern, western and south-western Amazonia, with records from Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Peru and Venezuela. It is a monotypic species first described by Cassin in 1851. Its range is patchy, with one broad area extending from southern Venezuela into north-western Brazil, another in Rondônia, and a further area where Brazil, Peru and Bolivia meet. It lives in rainforest, transitional forest, white-sand woodland and other poor-soil forest, usually in the canopy. Its plumage includes a black crown and nape, white underparts, and a black breast band.
- Order
- Piciformes
- Family
- Bucconidae — Puffbirds
- Breeding range
- South America: n, w, sw Amazonia
