Pied puffbird

Pied puffbird
In Mindo, Ecuador
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves
Order: Piciformes
Family: Bucconidae
Genus: Notharchus
Species: N. tectus
Binomial name
Notharchus tectus
(Boddaert, 1783)

The pied puffbird (Notharchus tectus) is a species of puffbird in the Bucconidae family.

It is found in Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Costa Rica, Ecuador, French Guiana, Guyana, Panama, Peru, Suriname, and Venezuela.

Its natural habitats are subtropical and tropical moist lowland forests and heavily degraded former forest.

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