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The swallow-winged puffbird is 14 to 15 cm (5.5 to 5.9 in) long and weighs 30 to 41.5 g (1.1 to 1.5 oz). The nominate subspecies has sooty black upperparts with some bluish iridescence. The lower back and rump are white. Its tail is short and black with white tips to the feathers that quickly wear away. The wings are long and pointed. The chin is whitish, the throat grayish, and the breast sooty black fading to gray in its lower part. Its belly is orange-chestnut. The bill is black, the eye dark brown, and the feet dark gray or black. C. t. Voice: The swallow-winged puffbird has a "wittering song often given in flight". Its calls include "'tsi-tsi-tsi' and high clear 'dí-didi dí-didi dí-didi…'."
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When to see the Swallow-winged Puffbird
One bar for each month, and every month is filled: this bird is recorded here in all twelve. The wide bar is October, the month with the most records.
Where to see the Swallow-winged Puffbird
The map shades 9 countries with regular records. Everything unshaded has no records. Countries are listed below the map.
About the Swallow-winged Puffbird
The swallow-winged puffbird is a species of near-passerine bird in the family Bucconidae, the puffbirds, nunlets, and nunbirds. It is also called the swallow-wing. It is found in Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, French Guiana, Guyana, Peru, Suriname, and Venezuela.
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Easily confused with
White-whiskered PuffbirdMalacoptila panamensisThe white-whiskered puffbird is about 18 cm (7.1 in) long with an average weight of about 43 g (1.5 oz).
White-necked PuffbirdNotharchus hyperrhynchusThe white-necked 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 black.
Black-fronted NunbirdMonasa nigrifronsThe black-fronted nunbird is 26 to 29 cm (10 to 11 in) long and weighs 68 to 98 g (2.4 to 3.5 oz).
Side by side: Black-fronted Nunbird vs Swallow-winged Puffbird · Swallow-winged Puffbird vs White-whiskered Puffbird · Swallow-winged Puffbird vs White-necked Puffbird
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