Chestnut-capped Puffbird

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[[image: ccpuffbird.jpg ]]

'''Scientific Name:''' Bucco macrodactylus

'''Scientific Name:''' Bucco macrodactylus

'''Habitat:''' South America; western Amazon Basin of Brazil, and Amazonian Venezuela, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, and northern Bolivia; also the eastern Orinoco River Basin of Venezuela. Found in subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests and subtropical or tropical swamps.

'''Habitat:''' South America; western Amazon Basin of Brazil, and Amazonian Venezuela, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, and northern Bolivia; also the eastern Orinoco River Basin of Venezuela. Found in subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests and subtropical or tropical swamps.

'''Diet:''' Insects and small vertebrates caught by a watch and wait technique.

'''Diet:''' Insects and small vertebrates caught by a watch and wait technique.

They usually perch alone, concealed or partially concealed on a limb 3 to 30 feet above or near water. It will sit quietly for long periods of time. Its song is quiet, an abrupt ascending string of notes ending in a twitter… “pup pup pep pep peep peep pip pip pip piz”

They usually perch alone, concealed or partially concealed on a limb 3 to 30 feet above or near water. It will sit quietly for long periods of time. Its song is quiet, an abrupt ascending string of notes ending in a twitter… “pup pup pep pep peep peep pip pip pip piz”