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What the Barred Puffbird sounds like
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The barred puffbird is about 22 cm (8.7 in) long and weighs about 63 g (2.2 oz). Its crown is blackish with dark rufous bars. The upper nape is black, the lower nape yellowish red, and the upper mantle black. The rest of the upperparts and the wings are dark chestnut with narrow black bands. The tail is long, narrow, and chestnut with narrow black bands. The chin is whitish. The face and underparts are pale rufous with fine blackish bars except in the center of the belly. The bill is grayish yellow to blackish, the eye creamy yellow, and the feet greenish gray. Voice: The barred puffbird's song is "a long, slow, ventriloquial and very human-like wolf-whistle, 'phweeeeeet-weeeeeeuuuu'". Near the nest it made low-pitched "werr" and "werr werr woo" calls.
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When to see the Barred Puffbird
One bar for each month, and every month is filled: this bird is recorded here in all twelve. The wide bar is February, the month with the most records.
Where to see the Barred Puffbird
The map shades 3 countries with regular records, and 1 more in a lighter tone where the bird turns up only as a stray. Everything unshaded has no records. Countries are listed below the map.
Recorded as a rare visitor in Peru.
About the Barred Puffbird
The barred puffbird is a species of bird in the family Bucconidae, the puffbirds, nunlets, and nunbirds. It is found in Panama, Colombia and Ecuador.
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Easily confused with
White-eared PuffbirdNystalus chacuruLike some other puffbirds, the white-eared puffbird is a round, plump bird with a very narrow tail.
Western Striolated PuffbirdNystalus obamaiThe eastern striolated puffbird is 19.8 to 21 cm (7.8 to 8.3 in) long and weighs 43 to 47 g (1.5 to 1.7 oz).
Eastern Striolated PuffbirdNystalus striolatusThe eastern striolated puffbird is about 20 cm (7.9 in) long and weighs 43 to 47 g (1.5 to 1.7 oz).
Side by side: Barred Puffbird vs Spot-backed Puffbird · Barred Puffbird vs White-eared Puffbird · Barred Puffbird vs Western Striolated Puffbird
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