Brown-banded puffbird
The brown-banded puffbird is a species of bird in the family Bucconidae, the puffbirds. It is one of six species in the genus Notharchus.
It is found in Amazon Basin areas of Bolivia, Brazil, and Peru, and in the Orinoco River region of Venezuela.
Its natural habitat is subtropical and tropical moist lowland forests.The brown-banded puffbird can be found in an area some long and wide, which includes the north and centre of Amazonas state, Brazil—a northwestern region of the Amazon Basin—and the upper reaches of the Orinoco River in south-central Venezuela, where it flows north into the Caribbean. A separate, much smaller region of the bird's range is further south, where the borders of Peru, Bolivia, and Brazil meet.
Other localized, small populations occur on the Amazon River, and on four of its tributaries: the central Tapajós River, lower Madeira River, lower Rio Negro, and lower Ucayali River.
