Puffbirds
Bucconidae
The puffbirds and their relatives in the near passerine family Bucconidae are tropical tree-dwelling insectivorous birds that are found from South America up to Mexico. Together with their closest relatives, the jacamars, they form a divergent lineage within the order Piciformes, though the two families are sometimes elevated to a separate order Galbuliformes. Lacking the iridescent colours of the jacamars, puffbirds are mainly brown, rufous or grey, with large heads, large eyes, and flattened bills with...
10 branches of this family, most-observed first · about 37 known species
Typical Nunbirds
genusMonasa
Streaked Puffbirds
genusMalacoptila
Black-and-white Puffbirds
genusNotharchus
Nystalus
genusNystalus
Chelidoptera
genusChelidoptera
Hypnelus
genusHypnelus
Bucco
genusBucco
Nunlets
genusNonnula
Micromonacha
genusMicromonacha
Hapaloptila
genusHapaloptila
Where it lives
Recorded sightings
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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 1505.