The sooty-capped puffbird (''Bucco noanamae'') is a species of

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in the family

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 li ...

, the puffbirds, nunlets, and nunbirds. It is

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Taxonomy and systematics

Some authors placed the sooty-capped puffbird in genus ''Nystactes'' during the first half of the 20th century, but it was returned to ''Bucco'' by most classifications after that. The

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(IOC) and the

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retain it there. However,

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's ''

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'' placed it back into ''Nystactes''. To further complicate matters, a 2020 publication proposed that genus ''Tamatia'' has precedence over ''Nystactes''.Clements, J. F., T. S. Schulenberg, M. J. Iliff, S. M. Billerman, T. A. Fredericks, J. A. Gerbracht, D. Lepage, B. L. Sullivan, and C. L. Wood. 2021. The eBird/Clements checklist of Birds of the World: v2021. Downloaded from https://www.birds.cornell.edu/clementschecklist/download/ Retrieved August 25, 2021 The sooty-capped puffbird and the

spotted puffbird The spotted puffbird (''Bucco tamatia'') is a species of puffbird in the family Bucconidae, the puffbirds, nunlets, and nunbirds. It is found in Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, French Guiana, Guyana, Peru, Suriname, and Venezuela.Remsen, J. ...

(''B. tamatia'') are closely related and may form a superspecies.Rasmussen, P. C., N. Collar, and P. F. D. Boesman (2020). Sooty-capped Puffbird (''Bucco noanamae''), version 1.0. In Birds of the World (J. del Hoyo, A. Elliott, J. Sargatal, D. A. Christie, and E. de Juana, Editors). Cornell Lab of Ornithology, Ithaca, NY, USA. https://doi.org/10.2173/bow.socpuf1.01 retrieved October 31, 2021Remsen, J. V., Jr., J. I. Areta, E. Bonaccorso, S. Claramunt, A. Jaramillo, D. F. Lane, J. F. Pacheco, M. B. Robbins, F. G. Stiles, and K. J. Zimmer. Version 24 August 2021. A classification of the bird species of South America. American Ornithological Society. https://www.museum.lsu.edu/~Remsen/SACCBaseline.htm retrieved August 24, 2021 The sooty-capped puffbird is

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Description

The sooty-capped puffbird is about long. Its crown and nape are blackish to grayish black. It has a bold white

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that grays to the rear and a wide black line through and below the eye. Its upperparts and rather short tail are dark brown. It has a white chin, a wide black band across the chest, and a buffy white belly and vent with black scallops. The bill is black, the eye red, and the feet pale gray.

Distribution and habitat

The sooty-capped puffbird is found only along the coast of Colombia from the

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south to the San Juan River. It inhabits humid and wet

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and

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and nearby unforested areas. It also occurs in scrublands. In all areas it tends to stay low in the vegetation. In elevation it ranges from sea level to .

Behavior

Feeding

The sooty-capped puffbird hunts by sallying from a low perch to pluck large insects from foliage. Other details of its diet are not known.

Breeding

The one known nest of a sooty-capped puffbird was in an arboreal

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. Both parents delivered food into it.

Vocalization

The sooty-capped puffbird's song is "a long series of 20-40 whistles, starting almost at a trilling pace, then becoming more drawn-out and accentuated".

Status

The

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has assessed the sooty-capped puffbird as Near Threatened. Its population is declining "moderately rapidly" because of habitat losses primarily to logging and conversion to agriculture, but human settlement and cattle ranching also contribute.

References

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sooty-capped puffbird The sooty-capped puffbird (''Bucco noanamae'') is a species of bird in the family Bucconidae, the puffbirds, nunlets, and nunbirds. It is endemic to Colombia. Taxonomy and systematics Some authors placed the sooty-capped puffbird in genus ''Ny ...

Birds of Colombia Endemic birds of Colombia Birds of the Tumbes-Chocó-Magdalena

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