Chaco Puffbird (Nystalus striatipectus)
About the Chaco Puffbird
The spot-backed puffbird (Nystalus maculatus) is a species of bird in the family Bucconidae, the puffbirds, nunlets, and nunbirds. It is found in South America from northeastern Brazil to northwestern Argentina. The spot-backed puffbird has sometimes been split into two species, the Caatinga puffbird and the Chaco puffbird. The spot-backed puffbird was described in 1648 by the German naturalist Georg Marcgrave in his Historia Naturalis Brasiliae. In his Latin text Marcgrave used the name Matuitui which was the local name for the bird in the Tupi language. A series of later ornithologists based their own descriptions on that by Marcgrave. These include Francis Willughby in 1678, John Ray in 1713, Mathurin Brisson in 1760, the Comte de Buffon in 1780, and John Latham in 1782.
No audio on this page yet
We only publish recordings we may use commercially, because this site is supported by ads. xeno-canto lists 28 recordings for this species: 8 CC BY-NC-ND · 4 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 Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Paraguay in the xeno-canto catalogue.
Related species you can hear
- Barred PuffbirdNystalus radiatusrecording
- Caatinga PuffbirdNystalus maculatusrecording
- Western Striolated PuffbirdNystalus obamairecording
This species has no recording here yet — these relatives do, so you can hear what the family sounds like.