puffbird

This was a new family, let alone species for me. Seen in the trees around the beautiful Sani Lodge in the Amazonian forest in Ecuador

Parque Nacional Yanachaga Chemilln, Sector Paujil Puffbirds are some of my favorite neotropical birds, partly because they're so goofy-looking, and partly because they're usually rare and/or hard to find. I was walking down a trail and I suddenly saw a bird that had clearly been perched very...

Chaco Puffbird (Nystalus maculatus striatipectus)

Striolated Puffbird (Nystalus striolatus subsp. striolatus)

Nice to see this sp. again. Photo taken in the Botanical Garden Ecological Reserve in Brasilia, Brazil.

Always a pleausre to see them.

Only my second encounter with this sp.

Barred Puffbird (Nystalus radiatus) Along Ro Indio Road near Jordinal, north of El Valle de Antn, Cocl Province, Panama. Secondary rain forest at ca. 622 m (2,042 ft) elevation, Caribbean-slope.

Taken right along the road between Puerto Viejo and Manzanillo on the Caribbean coast of Costa Rica

Another cerrado specialist.

An under canopy forest dweller, in this case 40 meters high trees. A pic just for the record.

I really do not know how this came out as sharp as it did considering it was at 1/30 sec. shutter speed and I was hand holding. The lighting was atrocious of course because it was in the middle of the rain forest. This was shot on the Plantation Trail at the Canopy Tower in Panama.

First posting - I actually found this site while trying to identify this bird!

This amazing bird took a rest on a nearby branch after catching a huge grasshopper, tried to swallow it! Puffed out it's chest. Then flew off with the grasshopper still in it's mouth.