Chestnut-capped Puffbird
Bucco macrodactylus(Spix, JB, 1824)
English (US) Chestnut-capped Puffbird
The Chestnut-capped Puffbird (Bucco macrodactylus) is a bird species documented in the AviList Global Avian Checklist. On BirdGuides.io, 0 professional guides specialise in helping birdwatchers observe this species. It belongs to the family Bucconidae (Puffbirds) in the order Galbuliformes.
Range: southeastern Colombia to Venezuela, northern Bolivia, and western Amazonian BrazilRange summary from AviList, in English.
- Scientific name
- Bucco macrodactylus
- Family
- Bucconidae (Puffbirds)
- Order
- Galbuliformes
- IUCN Red List
- Least Concern
- English (US)
- Chestnut-capped Puffbird
- Described by
- (Spix, JB, 1824)
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Add Your ExpertiseTaxonomic history
- First described as
- Cyphos macrodactylus
- Described by
- (Spix, JB, 1824)
- Type locality
- 'In sylvis flumen Amazonum' ; restricted to Fonte Boa, Brazil, by Berlepsch and Hartert, Nov. Zool., 9, 1902, p. 102.
- Original description
- Avium species novae, quas in itinere per Brasiliam annis MDCCCXVII-MDCCCXX (etc.) 1 p.51 pl.39 fig.2
Nomenclatural data from the AviList checklist, quoted in the language of the original sources.
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