Brown-banded puffbird
| Brown-banded puffbird | |
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| Brown-banded puffbird at Alta Floresta, Mato Grosso state, Brazil | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Aves |
| Order: | Piciformes |
| Family: | Bucconidae |
| Genus: | Notharchus |
| Species: | N. ordii |
| Binomial name | |
| Notharchus ordii (Cassin, 1851) | |
The brown-banded puffbird (Notharchus ordii) is a species of bird in the Bucconidae family, the puffbirds. It is one of six species in the genus Notharchus.
It is found in Amazon Basin areas of Bolivia, Brazil, and Peru, and in the Orinoco River region of Venezuela. Its natural habitat is subtropical and tropical moist lowland forests.
Range, north-central Amazonas, Brazil
The brown-banded puffbird can be found in an area some 1,700 km (1,100 mi) long and 400 km (250 mi) wide, which includes the north and centre of Amazonas state, Brazil—a northwestern region of the Amazon Basin—and the upper reaches of the Orinoco River in south-central Venezuela, where it flows north into the Caribbean. A separate, much smaller region of the bird's range is 1,500 km (930 mi) further south, where the borders of Peru, Bolivia, and Brazil meet.
Other localized, small populations occur on the Amazon River (downstream of the Tapajós-Amazon confluence), and on four of its tributaries: the central Tapajós River, lower Madeira River, lower Rio Negro, and lower Ucayali River.
References
- ↑ BirdLife International (2012). "Notharchus ordii". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2013.2. International Union for Conservation of Nature. Retrieved 26 November 2013.