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Black-breasted Puffbird

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Photo by njlarsen
Pipeline Road, Gamboa, Panama, December 2007

Notharchus pectoralis

1 Identification
2 Distribution
3 Taxonomy
4 Habitat
5 Behaviour
- 5.1 Diet
6 References
7 External Links

[edit] Identification

Sexes are similar.

[edit] Distribution

Humid forests of eastern Panama to western Colombia and north-western Ecuador

[edit] Taxonomy

This is a monotypic species^[1].

[edit] Habitat

Tropical lowland rain forest

[edit] Behaviour

[edit] Diet

The diet includes insects caught on the wing.

[edit] References

Photo by Glen Tepke
Pipeline Road, Gamboa, Panama

Clements, JF. 2008. The Clements Checklist of Birds of the World. 6th ed., with updates to December 2008. Ithaca: Cornell Univ. Press. ISBN 978-0801445019. Spreadsheet available at http://www.birds.cornell.edu/clementschecklist.
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