Bucco

Bucco
Collared puffbird (Bucco capensis)
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves
Order: Piciformes
Family: Bucconidae
Genus: Bucco
Brisson, 1760
Type species
Bucco capensis[1]
Linnaeus, 1766
Species

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Bucco is a genus of birds in the puffbird family Bucconidae. Birds in the genus are native to the Americas.

The genus Bucco was introduced by the French zoologist Mathurin Jacques Brisson in 1760 with the collared puffbird as the type species.[2] The name is from the Latin bucca for "cheek".[3]

Extant Species

The genus contains four species:[4]

Genus Bucco – Brisson, 1760 – four species
Common name Scientific name and subspecies Range Size and ecology IUCN status and estimated population
Collared puffbird

Bucco capensis
Linnaeus, 1766 		northern region of South America in the Amazon Basin, southern Colombia and Venezuela, and the Guianas.
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Diet: 		 LC 


Chestnut-capped puffbird

Bucco macrodactylus
(Spix, 1824) 		northwestern South America in the western Amazon Basin of Brazil, in Amazonian Venezuela, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, northern Bolivia, and in the eastern Orinoco River Basin of Venezuela.
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Habitat:

Diet: 		 LC 


Sooty-capped puffbird


Bucco noanamae
Hellmayr, 1909 		Colombia.
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Diet: 		 NT 


Spotted puffbird

Bucco tamatia
(Gmelin, JF, 1788)

Three subspecies
 Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, French Guiana, Guyana, Peru, Suriname, and Venezuela
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Diet: 		 LC 



References

  1. ^ "Picidae". aviansystematics.org. The Trust for Avian Systematics. Retrieved 2023-07-26.
  2. ^ Brisson, Mathurin Jacques (1760). Ornithologie, ou, Méthode contenant la division des oiseaux en ordres, sections, genres, especes & leurs variétés (in French and Latin). Paris: Jean-Baptiste Bauche. Vol. 1 p. 42, Vol 4 p. 91.
  3. ^ Jobling, J.A. (2018). del Hoyo, J.; Elliott, A.; Sargatal, J.; Christie, D.A.; de Juana, E. (eds.). "Key to Scientific Names in Ornithology". Handbook of the Birds of the World Alive. Lynx Edicions. Retrieved 3 April 2018.
  4. ^ Gill, Frank; Donsker, David, eds. (2018). "Jacamars, puffbirds, toucans, barbets, honeyguides". World Bird List Version 8.1. International Ornithologists' Union. Retrieved 3 April 2018.


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