Crescent-chested Puffbird (Malacoptila striata)
About the Crescent-chested Puffbird
The crescent-chested puffbird (Malacoptila striata) is a species of near-passerine bird in the family Bucconidae, the puffbirds, nunlets, and nunbirds. It is endemic to Brazil. The crescent-chested puffbird was for a time called Malacoptila torquata but since the mid-1900s it has borne its current binomial. The South American Classification Committee of the American Ornithological Society (SACC), the International Ornithological Committee (IOC), and the Clements taxonomy treat it as having two subspecies, the nominate M. s. striata and M. s. minor. However, BirdLife International's Handbook of the Birds of the World (HBW) treat those entities as separate species, the greater and lesser crescent-chested puffbirds respectively.
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We only publish recordings we may use commercially, because this site is supported by ads. xeno-canto lists 64 recordings for this species: 53 CC BY-NC-SA · 11 CC BY-NC-ND. 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.
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Listed as recorded in Brazil in the xeno-canto catalogue.
Related species you can hear
- Black-streaked PuffbirdMalacoptila fulvogularisrecording
- White-whiskered PuffbirdMalacoptila panamensisrecording
This species has no recording here yet — these relatives do, so you can hear what the family sounds like.