Buco Semicollar

Identificación

The semicollared puffbird is about 18 cm (7.1 in) long and weighs about 44 g (1.6 oz). The head and upperparts are blackish brown; pale shafts to the feathers give a streaked appearance. Its tail is brown. It has a whitish "whisker" and chin and a thin white crescent across the upper breast. The back of the neck has a rufous "collar". The underparts are whitish with blackish streaks on the lower breast and flanks. The bill is mostly black above and yellow-orange below, the eye dark red with a white ring around it, and the feet pale greenish pink.

Taxonomía

The semicollared puffbird and the white-chested puffbird (M. fusca) were for a time considered conspecific but are now treated as a superspecies. It is monotypic.

Nombre científico

Malacoptila semicincta

Autoridad

Todd, 1925

Orden

Piciformes

Familia

Bucónidos

Género

Malacoptila

Distribución y hábitat

The semicollared puffbird is found in western Amazonia where far western Brazil, southeastern Peru, and far northern Bolivia meet. It inhabits transitional forest and the edges of humid tropical evergreen terra firme forest, usually from the undergrowth up to the lower mid-story. In elevation it ranges from near sea level to 1,050 m (3,400 ft).

Migración

Resident species

Comportamiento

The semicollared puffbird's feeding behavior and diet have not been documented.<p>The semicollared puffbird's breeding phenology has not been documented.<p>The semicollared puffbird's song is a "series of thin, rather high-pitched, melancholy, descending 'Fééeur' or 'pseuu' whistles, each at first widely spaced...and starting on the same pitch; then dropping in pitch, 'pseuu-uuu-uuu'."

Conservación

Tendencia poblacional

declining