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Bucco tamatia (Spotted Puffbird)

Synonyms: Nystactes tamatia; Nystactes tamatia inexpectatus; Nystactes tamatia interior; Nystactes tamatia punctuliger

Wikipedia Abstract

The spotted puffbird (Bucco tamatia) is a species of puffbird in the Bucconidae family.It is found in Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, French Guiana, Guyana, Peru, Suriname, and Venezuela.Its natural habitats are subtropical and tropical swamps and heavily degraded former forest.
View Wikipedia Record: Bucco tamatia

Infraspecies

Bucco tamatia hypnaleus
Bucco tamatia pulmentum
Bucco tamatia tamatia

EDGE Analysis

Uniqueness Scale: Similiar (0) 
6
 Unique (100)
Uniqueness & Vulnerability Scale: Similiar & Secure (0) 
29
 Unique & Vulnerable (100)
ED Score: 12.9858
EDGE Score: 2.63804
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Attributes

Adult Weight [1]  36 grams
Forages - Mid-High [2]  20 %
Forages - Understory [2]  60 %
Forages - Ground [2]  20 %
Clutch Size [3]  2

Ecoregions

Protected Areas

Biodiversity Hotspots

Name Location Endemic Species Website
Cerrado Brazil No

Consumers

Parasitized by 
Subulura travassosi <Unverified Name>[4]

External References

Citations

Attributes / relations provided by
♦ 1Haverschmidt, F. and GF Mees. 1994. Birds of Suriname. Vaco, Paramaribo, Surinam
♦ 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
♦ 3Jetz W, Sekercioglu CH, Böhning-Gaese K (2008) The Worldwide Variation in Avian Clutch Size across Species and Space PLoS Biol 6(12): e303. doi:10.1371/journal.pbio.0060303
♦ 4Gibson, D. I., Bray, R. A., & Harris, E. A. (Compilers) (2005). Host-Parasite Database of the Natural History Museum, London
Ecoregions provided by World Wide Fund For Nature (WWF). WildFinder: Online database of species distributions, ver. 01.06 Wildfinder Database
Biodiversity Hotspots provided by Critical Ecosystem Partnership Fund
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