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The Guianan puffbird is about 25 cm (9.8 in) long and weighs 81 to 106 g (2.9 to 3.7 oz). It is mostly glossy blue-black. It has a white forehead, throat, upper breast, and center of the belly. A broad black band separates the last two. The white of the throat extends as a narrow line around the nape. The flanks are barred black and white and the tail is black with narrow white tips to the feathers. The eye color varies from straw to red. The large bill and feet are black. The song is "a series of whistles...'ui-ui-ui... wi-di-dik wi-di-dik wi-di-dik...'".
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When to see the Guianan Puffbird
One bar for each month, and every month is filled: this bird is recorded here in all twelve. The wide bar is September, the month with the most records.
Where to see the Guianan Puffbird
The map shades 5 countries with regular records, and 5 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 Colombia, Costa Rica, Peru, Ecuador, Bolivia.
About the Guianan Puffbird
The Guianan puffbird is a species of bird in the family Bucconidae, the puffbirds, nunlets, and nunbirds. It is found in Brazil, French Guiana, Guyana, Suriname, and Venezuela. It was formerly considered to be conspecific with the white-necked puffbird and the buff-bellied puffbird with the English name "white-necked puffbird".
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Easily confused with
Brown-banded PuffbirdNotharchus ordiiThe brown-banded puffbird is about 20 cm (7.9 in) long and weighs about 51.5 g (1.8 oz).
Buff-bellied PuffbirdNotharchus swainsoniThe buff-bellied puffbird is about 23.5 cm (9.3 in) long and weighs 72 to 75.6 g (2.5 to 2.7 oz).
Black-breasted PuffbirdNotharchus pectoralisThe black-breasted puffbird is 19 to 23 cm (7.5 to 9.1 in) long and weighs between 60 and 69 g (2.1 and 2.4 oz).
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