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Collared Puffbird
Bucco capensis Linnaeus, 1766
Bucconidae — Puffbirds
Collared Puffbird, Bucco capensis, is a bird of the Bucconidae family found in South America, from south-eastern Colombia and eastern Peru through southern and eastern Venezuela, the Guianas, Amazonian Brazil and north-west Bolivia. It lives in humid primary terra firme forest, drier hilly country and várzea forest in the lower Amazon. It is a monotypic species. The breeding season runs from at least May to September, and it lays two glossy white eggs in a cavity dug into an arboreal termitarium or a decayed tree trunk.
- Order
- Piciformes
- Family
- Bucconidae — Puffbirds
- Breeding range
- South America: se Colombia to e Peru, s, e Venezuela, the Guianas, Amazonian Brazil and nw Bolivia
