Two-banded Puffbird

Hypnelus bicinctus (Gould, 1837)

Two-banded Puffbird, Hypnelus bicinctus, is a puffbird of northern Venezuela in South America, with a mainland range in the llanos and a separate population on Margarita Island. It lives in open and partly open country on the mainland, including savanna, thickets, old farms and woodland edges, and on the island it uses bushland and woods from low ground to foothills. It is recognised by its two dark bands across the chest, with the nominate form also showing a marked face and a narrow pale collar on the nape.

Order

Piciformes

Family

Bucconidae — Puffbirds

Breeding range

South America: n Venezuela