Spotted Puffbird
Bucco tamatia
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- KingdomAnimalia (Animals)
- PhylumChordata (Chordates)
- ClassAves (Birds)
- OrderPiciformes (Woodpeckers and Allies)
- FamilyBucconidae (Puffbirds)
- GenusBucco
- SpeciesBucco tamatia (Spotted Puffbird)
About 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.
The spotted puffbird was described in 1648 by the German naturalist Georg Marcgrave in his Historia Naturalis Brasiliae. In his Latin text Marcgrave used the name Tamatia Brasiliensibus where tamatia was the local name for the bird in the Tupi language. Later ornithologists such as Francis Willughby in 1678 and John Ray in 1713 based their own description on that by Marcgrave. In 1780 the French polymath Comte de Buffon described and illustrated Le Tamatia from a specimen that had been collected in Cayenne, French Guiana. When the German naturalist Johann Friedrich Gmelin revised and expanded Carl Linnaeus's Systema Naturae in 1788 he included the spotted puffbird and cited the works by the earlier ornithologists. He placed the species with the other puffbirds in the genus Bucco and coined the binomial name Bucco tamatia.
The spotted puffbird has sometimes been placed in the genus Nystactes. It is closely related to the sooty-capped puffbird... Wikipedia →
Recent sightings of Spotted Puffbird in Yasuní National Park
LIVEiNaturalistClosest Relatives at Yasuní National Park
Chestnut-capped Puffbird
Bucco macrodactylus
Collared Puffbird
Bucco capensis
Black-fronted Nunbird
Monasa nigrifrons
Swallow-wing Puffbird
Chelidoptera tenebrosa
White-fronted Nunbird
Monasa morphoeus
White-necked Puffbird
Notharchus hyperrhynchus
Pied Puffbird
Notharchus tectus
Rufous-capped Nunlet
Nonnula ruficapilla
Yellow-billed Nunbird
Monasa flavirostris
Brown Nunlet
Nonnula brunnea
White-chested Puffbird
Malacoptila fusca
Lanceolated Monklet
Micromonacha lanceolata
Global Distribution
Warmer areas are where this animal is recorded most often.
Parks Where Found
| # | Park | Country | Daily sighting probability |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Amacayacu National Natural Park | 🇨🇴 Colombia | |
| 2 | Yasuní National Park | 🇪🇨 Ecuador | |
| 3 | Noel Kempff Mercado National Park | 🇧🇴 Bolivia | |
| 4 | Anavilhanas National Park | 🇧🇷 Brazil | |
| 5 | Chapada dos Guimarães National Park | 🇧🇷 Brazil | |
| 6 | Cuyabeno Wildlife Reserve | 🇪🇨 Ecuador |
Quick answers
What are the chances of seeing a Spotted Puffbird in Yasuní National Park?
Under 5% of wildlife watchers report a Spotted Puffbird sighting in Yasuní National Park, based on 13 verified sightings from GBIF citizen-science data.
When is the best time to see Spotted Puffbird in Yasuní National Park?
August has the highest sighting rate for Spotted Puffbird in Yasuní National Park in our monthly data.