Kingdom Animalia Scientific name Chelidoptera tenebrosa Higher classification Chelidoptera Order Piciformes | Family Bucconidae Phylum Chordata Rank Species | |
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Genus Chelidoptera
Gould, 1837 Similar Black‑fronted nunbird, White‑fronted nunbird, Puffbird, Black nunbird, Pied puffbird | ||
Casal de urubuzinho chelidoptera tenebrosa swallow winged puffbird
The swallow-winged puffbird (Chelidoptera tenebrosa) is a species of bird in the family Bucconidae, the puffbirds. It is also called the swallow-wing. It is the only species in the genus Chelidoptera.
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- Casal de urubuzinho chelidoptera tenebrosa swallow winged puffbird
- Swallow winged puffbird chelidoptera tenebrosa puffbirds
- Distribution and habitat
- References
It is found in Brazil and the entire Amazon Basin; also Bolivia, Colombia, Ecuador, the Guianas, Guyana, Suriname, French Guiana, and Peru, and Venezuela. Its natural habitats are subtropical and tropical moist lowland forests, subtropical and tropical swamps, and heavily degraded former forest.
Swallow winged puffbird chelidoptera tenebrosa puffbirds
Distribution and habitat
The swallow-winged puffbird's range is throughout the Amazon Basin to the foothills of the Andes in the west, in Colombia, Ecuador, and Peru. To the east-southeast, the range encompasses the Amazon's adjacent Tocantins-Araguaia River drainage and about 900 km (560 mi) eastward. Southeastwards from the Amazon Basin across the Caatinga, a disjunct population occurs on the southeast coast of Brazil, in a 300–800 km (190–500 mi) wide coastal strip that extends about 3,000 km (1,900 mi).
On the north Caribbean coast of South America, in the west nearly all of Venezuela is in the bird's range. The coastal range is continuous eastwards through the Atlantic coastal Guianas, and ends east of the Tocantins-Araguaia drainage in the Brazilian states of Maranhão and Piauí.
The swallow-winged puffbird digs its nest in sandy soil, forming a burrow two or three feet long, where it lays one or two eggs.