World Species : Malacoptila fusca (White-chested Puffbird)

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Malacoptila fusca (White-chested Puffbird)

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Synonyms: Bucco fuscus; Malacoptila fusca fusca; Malacoptila fusca venezuelae

Wikipedia Abstract

The white-chested puffbird (Malacoptila fusca) is a species of puffbird in the Bucconidae family. It is one of seven species in the genus Malacoptila.It is found in Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, French Guiana, Guyana, Peru, Suriname, and Venezuela.Its natural habitat is subtropical and tropical moist lowland forests.

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EDGE Analysis

Uniqueness Scale: Similiar (0)

Unique (100)

Uniqueness & Vulnerability Scale: Similiar & Secure (0)

Unique & Vulnerable (100)

ED Score: 12.5284

EDGE Score: 2.60479

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Attributes

Adult Weight ^[1]	45 grams

Diet ^[2]	Carnivore (Invertebrates)
Diet - Invertibrates ^[2]	100 %
Forages - Understory ^[2]	50 %
Forages - Ground ^[2]	50 %

Ecoregions

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Name	Countries	Ecozone	Biome
Caqueta moist forests	Brazil, Columbia	Neotropic	Tropical and Subtropical Moist Broadleaf Forests
Guianan Freshwater swamp forests	Suriname, Guyana, French Guiana	Neotropic	Tropical and Subtropical Moist Broadleaf Forests
Guianan moist forests	Guyana, Suriname, French Guiana, Brazil, Venezuela	Neotropic	Tropical and Subtropical Moist Broadleaf Forests
Japurá-Solimoes-Negro moist forests	Brazil, Colombia, Venezuela	Neotropic	Tropical and Subtropical Moist Broadleaf Forests
Napo moist forests	Colombia, Venezuela, Peru	Neotropic	Tropical and Subtropical Moist Broadleaf Forests
Negro-Branco moist forests	Colombia, Venezuela, Brazil	Neotropic	Tropical and Subtropical Moist Broadleaf Forests
Rio Negro campinarana	Brazil, Colombia	Neotropic	Tropical and Subtropical Moist Broadleaf Forests
Uatuma-Trombetas moist forests	Brazil, Guyana, Suriname	Neotropic	Tropical and Subtropical Moist Broadleaf Forests
Ucayali moist forests	Peru	Neotropic	Tropical and Subtropical Moist Broadleaf Forests

Protected Areas

Name	IUCN Category	Area acres	Location
Cordillera Azul National Park		3367365	Huanuco, Peru
Jaú National Park	II	5890355	Amazonas, Brazil
Ralleigh Falls - Voltzberg Nature Reserve		191114	Suriname
Reserva de la Biosfera de Yasuni Biosphere Reserve		4156313	Ecuador

Range Map

External References

Citations

Attributes / relations provided by
♦ ¹Dick, JA, WB McGillivray, and DJ Brooks. 1984. A list of birds and their weights from Saul, French Guiana. Wilson Bulletin 96:347–365
♦ ²Hamish Wilman, Jonathan Belmaker, Jennifer Simpson, Carolina de la Rosa, Marcelo M. Rivadeneira, and Walter Jetz. 2014. EltonTraits 1.0: Species-level foraging attributes of the world's birds and mammals. Ecology 95:2027

Ecoregions provided by World Wide Fund For Nature (WWF). WildFinder: Online database of species distributions, ver. 01.06 Wildfinder Database

Abstract provided by DBpedia licensed under a Creative Commons License

Species taxanomy provided by GBIF Secretariat (2022). GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei accessed via GBIF.org on 2023-06-13; License: CC BY 4.0