BlogRelaxStatisticsWorld mapTop 5
← Back to Bolivia

Swallow-winged Puffbird (Chelidoptera tenebrosa)

Swallow-winged Puffbird
Photo: Joao Quental via Wikimedia Commons, CC BY 2.0 — free for commercial reuse.

About the Swallow-winged Puffbird

The swallow-winged puffbird (Chelidoptera tenebrosa) is a species of near-passerine bird in the family Bucconidae, the puffbirds, nunlets, and nunbirds. It is also called the swallow-wing. It is found in Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, French Guiana, Guyana, Peru, Suriname, and Venezuela. The swallow-winged puffbird was previously known as simply "swallow-wing" but its current name has been widely accepted since the late twentieth century. It is the only member of its genus. It has three subspecies, the nominate C. t. tenebrosa, C. t. brasiliensis, and C. t. pallida.

Source: Swallow-winged puffbird on Wikipedia, CC BY-SA
🎧

No audio on this page yet

We only publish recordings we may use commercially, because this site is supported by ads. xeno-canto lists 72 recordings for this species: 1 CC BY-NC-SA. None of them permits commercial use, so there is no player here — the page is kept as a profile so the bird is not missing from the guide.

As soon as someone uploads a freely licensed recording, we mirror it and the player appears here.

Listed as recorded in Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador in the xeno-canto catalogue.

Other birds you can hear here

These are the birds recorded alongside it, not close relatives — the site holds no other member of its genus or family yet.