The ZooChat Photographic Guide To The Piciformes (part II) - Barbets, Jacamars and Puffbirds

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As I have discussed in this post, this thread and the one which will follow serve as a continuation of a thread by @Great Argus which covered the toucan family, Ramphastidae, extending it out to cover the entirety of the Piciformes. This thread will cover a pair of basal families within the Piciformes, along with the various families of barbet and toucan-barbet which are sister to the already-discussed toucans and aracaris; discussion of the woodpeckers and honeyguides will follow in a subsequent thread.

For the purposes of consistency, I will be using the taxonomy presented on the new Birds of the World platform which has superceded the HBW Alive site; it should be noted that there are some differences between the taxonomy presented there and the one used by Great Argus in his discussion of the toucans, with many of the species split by HBW having been lumped once again.
 
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PICIFORMES


This clade contains around 430 species within nine families as follows:


GALBULIDAE - Jacamars (5 genera, 18 species)

BUCCONIDAE - Puffbirds, Nunbirds and allies (10 genera, 36 species)

MEGALAIMIDAE - Asian Barbets (2 genera, 34 species)

LYBIIDAE - African Barbets (7 genera, 41 species)

CAPITONIDAE - New World Barbets (2 genera, 14 species)

SEMNORNITHIDAE - Toucan-Barbets (1 genus, 2 species)

RAMPHASTIDAE - Toucans and Aracaris (5 genera, 36 species)

PICIDAE - Woodpeckers, Piculets and Wrynecks (33 genera, 234 species)

INDICATORIDAE - Honeyguides (4 genera, 17 species)
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Galbalcyrhynchus


White-eared Jacamar (Galbalcyrhynchus leucotis)

The range of this species extends throughout the westernmost reaches of the Amazon Basin, from the eastern slopes of the Andes in southern Colombia through eastern Ecuador into northeast Peru, and into western Brazil.

Monotypic.

Photo by @devilfish

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Purus Jacamar (Galbalcyrhynchus purusianus)

The range of this species extends throughout the southwestern Amazon Basin, from eastern Peru into southwest Brazil and northern Bolivia.

Monotypic; no photographs of this taxon exist in the Zoochat gallery.
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Brachygalba


White-throated Jacamar (Brachygalba albogularis)

The range of this species is restricted to a small portion of the southwestern Amazon Basin from eastern Peru into westernmost Brazil and northwesternmost Bolivia.

Monotypic; no photographs of this taxon exist in the Zoochat gallery.


Brown Jacamar (Brachygalba lugubris)

The range of this species extends throughout much of northern and central South America in a number of widely-disjunct populations; from the eastern Andes of Colombia, eastern Ecuador and northeast Peru through northern Brazil and southern Venezuela into the Guianas; throughout much of central and south-central Brazil south of the Amazon and adjacent regions of northeast Bolivia; and regions of coastal northeastern Brazil.

Seven subspecies are currently recognised:

B. l. fulviventris
B. l. caquetae
B. l. lugubris
B. l. obscuriceps
B. l. naumburgae
B. l. melanosterna
B. l. phaeonota

No photographs of this taxon exist in the Zoochat gallery.


Pale-headed Jacamar (Brachygalba goeringi)

The range of this species is restricted to a tiny portion of northeast Colombia and immediately-adjacent northwestern Venezuela.

Monotypic; no photographs of this taxon exist in the Zoochat gallery.


Dusky-backed Jacamar (Brachygalba salmoni)

The range of this species is restricted to a tiny region of easternmost Panama and immediately-adjacent regions of northwest Colombia.

Monotypic; no photographs of this taxon exist in the Zoochat gallery.
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Jacamaralcyon


Three-toed Jacamar (Jacamaralcyon tridactyla)

Endemic to a small region of the Atlantic forests of southeastern Brazil.

Monotypic; no photographs of this taxon exist in the Zoochat gallery.
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Galbula


Yellow-billed Jacamar (Galbula albirostris)

The range of this species extends throughout much of northern South America east of the Andes and north of the Amazon River, from eastern Ecuador, northwesternmost Brazil and northeastern Peru in the west, through northern Brazil, southeastern Colombia and southern Venezuela into the Guianas in the east.

Two subspecies are currently recognised:

G. a. albirostris
G. a. chalcocephala

No photographs of this taxon exist in the Zoochat gallery.


Blue-cheeked Jacamar (Galbula cyanicollis)

The range of this species extends from eastern Peru through west-central and central Brazil south of the Amazon River to coastal northeast Brazil.

Monotypic; no photographs of this taxon exist in the Zoochat gallery.


Rufous-tailed Jacamar (Galbula ruficauda)

The range of this species extends throughout much of Central and South America in a fragmented distribution of disjunct populations; from southeastern Mexico throughout Central America into easternmost Panama, and from here south along the western slope of the Andes into western Ecuador, and east throughout Colombia and northern Venezuela; in northernmost Brazil and immediately-adjacent regions of the Guianas; and throughout much of central and southern Brazil south of the Amazon River into the easternmost reaches of the Bolivian Andes.

Six subspecies are currently recognised:

G. r. ruficauda
G. r. pallens
G. r. brevirostris
G. r. melanogenia
G. r. rufoviridis - photo by @Therabu

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G. r. heterogyna


Green-tailed Jacamar (Galbula galbula)

The range of this species extends throughout southern Venzezuela and the Guianas and adjacent regions of northern Brazil and southeastern Colombia.

Monotypic; no photographs of this taxon exist in the Zoochat gallery.


White-chinned Jacamar (Galbula tombacea)

The range of this species extends throughout the western reaches of the Amazon Basin north of the Amazon River from northeastern Ecuador, through southern Colombia and northeastern Peru into northwestern Brazil.

Two subspecies are currently recognised:

G. t. tombacea
G. t. mentalis

No photographs of this taxon exist in the Zoochat gallery.


Bluish-fronted Jacamar (Galbula cyanescens)

The range of this species is restricted to a small region of the western Amazon Basin south of the Amazon River, from eastern Peru into adjacent regions of westernmost Brazil and northwestern Bolivia.

Monotypic; no photographs of this taxon exist in the Zoochat gallery.


Coppery-chested Jacamar (Galbula pastazae)

Endemic to a narrow strip on the eastern slope of the Andes, from southernmost Colombia in the north, through central Ecuador to northernmost Peru in the south.

Monotypic; no photographs of this taxon exist in the Zoochat gallery.


Purplish Jacamar (Galbula chalcothorax)

The range of this species is restricted to a small region of the western Amazon Basin, from southeastern Colombia and adjacent regions of eastern Ecuador into eastern and central Peru and westernmost Brazil.

Monotypic; no photographs of this taxon exist in the Zoochat gallery.


Bronzy Jacamar (Galbula leucogastra)

The range of this species extends patchily throughout much of the central and eastern Amazon Basin and adjacent regions of the Guianas, southern Venezuela and southeastern Colombia, extending as far south as northernmost Bolivia.

Monotypic; no photographs of this taxon exist in the Zoochat gallery.


Paradise Jacamar (Galbula dea)

The range of this species extends throughout the Amazon Basin and adjacent regions of northern and central South America, as far north as southern Colombia, Venezuela and the Guianas, as far west as easternmost Ecuador and northeast Peru, and as far south as northern Bolivia.

Four subspecies are currently recognised:

G. d. dea
G. d. amazonum
G. d. brunneiceps
G. d. phainopepla

No photographs of this taxon exist in the Zoochat gallery.
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Jacamerops


Great Jacamar (Jacamerops aureus)

The range of this species represents a pair of disjunct populations; throughout much of Central America and northwestern South America, from northeast Honduras in the north to northeast Ecuador and adjacent regions of southern Colombia in the south; and throughout much of the Amazon Basin and adjacent regions of northern South America east of the Andes, from eastern Ecuador and Peru in the west to the Guianas and northeast Brazil in the east.

Four subspecies are currently recognised:

J. a. penardi
J. a. aureus
J. a. ridgwayi
J. a. isidori

No photographs of this taxon exist in the Zoochat gallery.
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BUCCONIDAE


This family comprises 10 extant genera, as follows:


Notharchus - White-necked Puffbird and allies (6 species)

Bucco - Chestnut-capped Puffbird and allies (4 species)

Nystalus - Barred Puffbird and allies (5 species)

Hypnelus - Russet-throated Puffbird (monotypic)

Malacoptila - White-chested Puffbird and allies (7 species)

Micromonacha - Lanceolated Monklet (monotypic)

Nonnula - Nunlets (6 species)

Hapaloptila - White-faced Nunbird (monotypic)

Monasa - Black Nunbird and allies (4 species)

Chelidoptera - Swallow-winged Puffbird (monotypic)
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Notharchus


White-necked Puffbird (Notharchus hyperrhynchus)

The range of this species extends patchily throughout much of Central America and northern South America, from southern Mexico in the north to eastern Panama and adjacent west-central Colombia in the south, and from here extending south to southwest Ecuador on the western slope of the Andes, and east of the Andes throughout much of the Amazon Basin and adjacent regions of southeast Colombia and southern Venezuela; largely absent from northwest and northeast Brazil and the Guianas.

Two subspecies are currently recognised:

N. h. hyperrhynchus
N. h. paraensis

No photographs of this taxon exist in the Zoochat gallery.


Guianan Puffbird (Notharchus macrorhynchos)

Endemic to the Guianas and immediately-adjacent regions of extreme eastern Venezuela and the extreme north of Brazil.

Monotypic; no photographs of this taxon exist in the Zoochat gallery.


Buff-bellied Puffbird (Notharchus swainsoni)

Endemic to a small region of the Atlantic Forest of southeastern Brazil and immediately-adjacent regions of eastern Paraguay and the extreme northeast of Argentina.

Monotypic; no photographs of this taxon exist in the Zoochat gallery.


Black-breasted Puffbird (Notharchus pectoralis)

The range of this species extends throughout eastern Panama and adjacent regions of northwest Colombia, and south along the western coastline of Colombia into the extreme northwest of Ecuador.

Monotypic; no photographs of this taxon exist in the Zoochat gallery.


Brown-banded Puffbird (Notharchus ordii)

The range of this species represents a widespread but highly-fragmented distribution of disjunct populations throughout northern and central South America, from southern Venezuela and southeastern Colombia through northwest and north-central Brazil into eastern Peru and northern Bolivia.

Monotypic; no photographs of this taxon exist in the Zoochat gallery.


Pied Puffbird (Notharchus tectus)

The range of this species represents a fragmented distribution of disjunct populations throughout Central America and northern South America; from the Caribbean slope of Costa Rica in the north to northwest Ecuador in the south; and throughout much of Colombia, Venezuela and the Guianas into adjacent regions of the northern Amazon Basin.

Three subspecies are currently recognised:

N. t. subtectus
N. t. picatus
N. t. tectus

No photographs of this taxon exist in the Zoochat gallery.
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Bucco


Chestnut-capped Puffbird (Bucco macrodactylus)

The range of this species extends throughout much of the western and central Amazon Basin and adjacent regions of northern South America, from the eastern slope of the Andes in southeast Colombia, Ecuador and eastern Peru to southern Venezuela and north-central Brazil, and south to northernmost Bolivia.

Monotypic; no photographs of this taxon exist in the Zoochat gallery.


Spotted Puffbird (Bucco tamatia)

The range of this species represents a pair of disjunct populations in northern and central South America; throughout much of the northern and central Amazon Basin and adjacent regions east of the Andes, from southeast Colombia, eastern Ecuador and northeast Peru in the west, through Venezuela and Amazonian Brazil to the Guianas and northeast Brazil; and the south-central Amazon Basin and immediately-adjacent regions of easternmost Bolivia.

Three subspecies are currently recognised:

B. t. pulmentum
B. t. tamatia
B. t. hypnaleus

No photographs of this taxon exist in the Zoochat gallery.


Sooty-capped Puffbird (Bucco noanamae)

Endemic to the Pacific lowlands of extreme northwestern Colombia.

Monotypic; no photographs of this taxon exist in the Zoochat gallery.


Collared Puffbird (Bucco capensis)

The range of this species extends throughout much of the Amazon Basin and adjacent regions of South America east of the Andes, from eastern Ecuador and southeast Colombia in the west, through southern Venezuela into the Guianas and northern Brazil in the east, and south to southeast Peru and northern Bolivia.

Monotypic; no photographs of this taxon exist in the Zoochat gallery.
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Nystalus


Barred Puffbird (Nystalus radiatus)

The range of this species is restricted to a narrow strip following the coastline of southernmost Central America and northwest South America, from eastern Panama in the north, through northwest Colombia to western Ecuador in the south.

Monotypic; no photographs of this taxon exist in the Zoochat gallery.


Western Striolated-Puffbird (Nystalus obamai)

The range of this species is restricted to the westernmost reaches of the Amazon Basin in the eastern foothills of the Andes, from southern Colombia in the north to western Bolivia in the south, and east from here into Brazil south of the Amazon and west of the Rio Madeira.

Monotypic; no photographs of this taxon exist in the Zoochat gallery.


Eastern Striolated-Puffbird (Nystalus striolatus)

The range of this species extends throughout much of the southern Amazon Basin of central and north-central Brazil, and adjacent regions of northeast Bolivia.

Two subspecies are currently recognised:

N. s. striolatus
N. s. torridus

No photographs of this taxon exist in the Zoochat gallery.


White-eared Puffbird (Nystalus chacuru)

The range of this species extends throughout much of central South America, from northern and central Bolivia in the west into much of northeast, eastern and southern Brazil, and south into eastern Paraguay and northeast Argentina; patchy and fragmented disjunct populations occur throughout eastern Peru and central Brazil.

Two subspecies are currently recognised:

N. c. uncirostris
N. c. chacuru – photo by @Therabu

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Spot-backed Puffbird (Nystalus maculatus)

The range of this species extends throughout much of eastern and central South America, from northeast and central Brazil in the north, through southern Bolivia and south-central Brazil to western and central Paraguay and northwest Argentina in the south.

Two subspecies are currently recognised as follows:

N. m. maculatus
N. m. striatipectus

No photographs of this taxon exist in the Zoochat gallery.
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Hypnelus


Russet-throated Puffbird (Hypnelus ruficollis)

The range of this species is restricted to coastal northern Colombia and adjacent regions of Venezuela.

Five subspecies are currently recognised as follows:

H. r. ruficollis
H. r. decolor
H. r. coloratus
H. r. bicinctus
H. r. stoicus

No photographs of this taxon exist in the Zoochat gallery.
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Malacoptila


White-chested Puffbird (Malacoptila fusca)

The range of this species represents a pair of widely disjunct populations in northern South America east of the Andes; from eastern Colombia and southwest Venezuela in the north, through eastern Ecuador into central and eastern Peru in the south; and throughout northeastern Brazil and the Guianas.

Monotypic; no photographs of this taxon exist in the Zoochat gallery.


Semicollared Puffbird (Malacoptila semicincta)

The range of this species is restricted to a small region of westernmost Brazil and adjacent regions of southeast Peru and northwest Bolivia.

Monotypic; no photographs of this taxon exist in the Zoochat gallery.



Crescent-chested Puffbird (Malacoptila striata)

The range of this species represents a pair of widely-disjunct populations; in coastal northeastern Brazil; and across much of eastern and southeastern Brazil.

Two subspecies are currently recognised, as follows:

M. s. minor – photo by @Therabu

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M. s. striata


Rufous-necked Puffbird (Malacoptila rufa)

The range of this species extends throughout much of the southern Amazon Basin of Brazil, extending west into northeastern Peru – where it occurs north of the Amazon River – and south into northern Bolivia.

Two subspecies are currently recognised as follows:

M. r. brunnescens
M. r. rufa

No photographs of this taxon exist in the Zoochat gallery.


White-whiskered Puffbird (Malacoptila panamensis)

The range of this species extends throughout Central America into the Pacific coastline of northwest South America, from southern Mexico in the north to southwest Ecuador in the south.

Four subspecies are currently recognised as follows:

M. p. inornata
M. p. panamensis
M. p. magdalenae
M. p. poliopis

No photographs of this taxon exist in the Zoochat gallery.


Black-streaked Puffbird (Malacoptila fulvogularis)

The range of this species is restricted to a highly-fragmented and patchy distribution throughout the eastern Andes from central Colombia in the north to northwest Bolivia in the south.

Monotypic; no photographs of this taxon exist in the Zoochat gallery.


Moustached Puffbird (Malacoptila mystacalis)

The range of this species is restricted to a patchy distribution of disjunct populations occurring throughout the Colombian Andes and northwest Venezuela.

Monotypic; no photographs of this taxon exist in the Zoochat gallery.
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Micromonacha


Lanceolated Monklet (Micromonacha lanceolata)

The range of this species represents a fragmented and patchy distribution throughout southern Central America and northwest South America, from the Caribbean slope of Costa Rica and west-central Panama in the north, through Colombia into northwest Ecuador on the western slope of the Andes, and along the eastern slope of the Andes through western Brazil and eastern Peru as far south as central Bolivia.

Monotypic; no photographs of this taxon exist in the Zoochat gallery.
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Nonnula


Rusty-breasted Nunlet (Nonnula rubecula)

The range of this species represents a pair of widely-disjunct populations in northern and eastern South America; throughout southern Colombia, eastern Ecuador and northeastern Peru in the west, through northern Brazil and north-central Brazil and southern Venezuela into the Guianas; and throughout eastern and southeast Brazil and adjacent regions of eastern Paraguay and northeast Argentina.

Seven subspecies are currently recognised as follows:

N. r. simulatrix
N. r. duidae
N. r. interfluvialis
N. r. cineracea
N. r. tapanahoniensis
N. r. simplex
N. r. rubecula

No photographs of this taxon exist in the Zoochat gallery.


Fulvous-chinned Nunlet (Nonnula sclateri)

The range of this species is restricted to the southwest Amazon Basin of eastern Peru, northern Bolivia and southwest Brazil.

Monotypic; no photographs of this taxon exist in the Zoochat gallery.


Brown Nunlet (Nonnula brunnea)

The range of this species is restricted to a narrow strip of the northwestern Amazon Basin and eastern foothills of the Andes from southern Colombia in the north to northern Peru in the south.

Monotypic; no photographs of this taxon exist in the Zoochat gallery.


Grey-cheeked Nunlet (Nonnula frontalis)

The range of this species is restricted to a patchy distribution extending from central Panama into adjacent regions of north and northeast Colombia.

Three subspecies are currently recognised:

N. f. stulta
N. f. pallescens
N. f. frontalis

No photographs of this taxon exist in the Zoochat gallery.


Rufous-capped Nunlet (Nonnula ruficapilla)

The range of this species extends throughout much of the southern Amazon Basin, from eastern Peru and northwest Bolivia in the west, throughout Brazil south of the Amazon into east-central Brazil.

Four subspecies are currently recognised:

N. r. rufipectus
N. r. ruficapilla
N. r. nattereri
N. r. inundata

No photographs of this taxon exist in the Zoochat gallery.


Chestnut-headed Nunlet (Nonnula amaurocephala)

Endemic to a tiny region of central Amazonian Brazil west of the Rio Negro and north of the Amazon.

Monotypic; no photographs of this taxon exist in the Zoochat gallery.
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Hapaloptila


White-faced Nunbird (Hapaloptila castanea)

Endemic to the high humid cloud-forests of the northern Andes, extending from western Colombia in the north, through eastern Ecuador, to northwestern and central Peru in the south.

Monotypic; no photographs of this taxon exist in the Zoochat gallery.
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Monasa


Black Nunbird (Monasa atra)

The range of this species extends throughout much of southern and eastern Venezuela and the Guianas, and south into adjacent regions of northern Brazil.

Monotypic; no photographs of this taxon exist in the Zoochat gallery.


Black-fronted Nunbird (Monasa nigrifrons)

The range of this species extends throughout much of South America east of the Andes, from southeast Colombia, eastern Ecuador and northeast Peru in the west, through Amazonian Brazil south of the Amazon, to northeast Brazil in the east, and south into northern and central Bolivia and south-central Brazil.

Two subspecies are currently recognised:

M. n. nigrifrons – photo by @Therabu

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M. n. canescens


White-fronted Nunbird (Monasa morphoeus)

The range of this species represents a patchy distribution of disjunct populations; throughout Central America and northwest South America from eastern Honduras in the north to northwest and central Colombia in the south; from southeastern Colombia, eastern Ecuador and northeast Peru on the eastern slope of the Andes, throughout much of the Amazon Basin to northeast Brazil in the east; and a narrow strip of the Atlantic forest of eastern Brazil.

Seven subspecies are currently recognised:

M. m. grandior
M. m. fidelis
M. m. pallescens
M. m. sclateri
M. m. morphoeus
M. m. peruana
M. m. rikeri

No photographs of this taxon exist in the Zoochat gallery.


Yellow-billed Nunbird (Monasa flavirostris)

The range of this species represents a pair of disjunct populations in the eastern foothills of the Andes and adjacent regions of the western Amazon Basin; from south-central Colombia into eastern Ecuador and northern Peru; and in southeast Peru and immediately-adjacent regions of westernmost Brazil and northwest Bolivia.

Monotypic; no photographs of this taxon exist in the Zoochat gallery.
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Chelidoptera


Swallow-winged Puffbird (Chelidoptera tenebrosa)

The range of this species extends throughout northern and central South America east of the Andes, from central Colombia, Venezuela and the Guianas in the north to south-central Brazil and northern Bolivia in the south; a disjunct population occurs throughout coastal southeast Brazil.

Three subspecies are currently recognised as follows:

C. t. tenebrosa
C. t. brasiliensis
C. t. pallida

No photographs of this taxon exist in the Zoochat gallery.
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MEGALAIMIDAE


This family comprises 2 extant genera:

Caloramphus - Brown Asian Barbets (2 species)

Psilopogon - Green Asian Barbets (32 species)
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