English           -            Buff-bellied Puffbird

Portuguese    -            Macuru de barriga Castanha

Latin                -           Notharchus Swainsoni

This cool looking wee bird was photographed at a place called Waldenor which is an excursion you can take if you stay at REGUA. (Reserva Ecológica de Guapiaçu) Waldenor is about a half hours drive from REGUA, then there is about a two hour return walk through forest, in which numerous bird species can be seen. On this occasion and after stopping for a water stop we spotted the Buff-bellied Puffbird sitting on a branch, quite high in a tree. There was a pair of them and we were able to observe them for quite along time until they had somewhere else to go and they flew away. The day was a bright sunny day and managed to get some good photos even though they were quite high up in a tree.

* The Buff-bellied Puffbird is a smallish type of bird with a length of 24 cm and weighs around 76g.

* Its call sound like a descending sequence of whistles, varying in rhythm.

*  It is found in Argentina, Brazil, and Paraguay. 

* Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests and heavily degraded former forest. 

* Their diet mainly consists of insects and small vertebrates.

* The female lays three to four white eggs which are incubated for 14-21 days .The nestlings fledge after 30 days.

* The Buff-bellied Puffbird is not globally threatened. In Brazil, its range recently shown to be wider than thought, and with a large range and stable numbers, the Buff-bellied Puffbird is classified as a species ”of least concern”.