Sooty-capped Puffbird (Bucco noanamae)
About the Sooty-capped Puffbird
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. Some authors placed the sooty-capped puffbird in genus Nystactes during the first half of the 20th century, but it was returned to Bucco by most classifications after that. The International Ornithological Committee (IOC) and the Clements taxonomy retain it there. However, BirdLife International's Handbook of the Birds of the World placed it back into Nystactes. To further complicate matters, a 2020 publication proposed that genus Tamatia has precedence over Nystactes. The sooty-capped puffbird and the spotted puffbird (B. tamatia) are closely related and may form a superspecies. The sooty-capped puffbird is monotypic.
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Listed as recorded in Colombia in the xeno-canto catalogue.
Related species you can hear
- Spotted PuffbirdBucco tamatiarecording
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