Bucco
Bucco is a genus of birds in the puffbird family Bucconidae. Birds in the genus are native to the Americas.
The genus Bucco was introduced by the French zoologist Mathurin Jacques Brisson in 1760 with the collared puffbird as the type species. The name is from the Latin bucca for "cheek".
Extant Species
The genus contains four species:| Image | Scientific name | Common Name | Distribution |
| Bucco capensis | Collared puffbird | northern region of South America in the Amazon Basin, southern Colombia and Venezuela, and the Guianas. | |
| Bucco macrodactylus | Chestnut-capped puffbird | northwestern South America in the western Amazon Basin of Brazil, in Amazonian Venezuela, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, northern Bolivia, and in the eastern Orinoco River Basin of Venezuela. | |
| Bucco noanamae | Sooty-capped puffbird | Colombia. | |
| Bucco tamatia | Spotted puffbird | Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, French Guiana, Guyana, Peru, Suriname, and Venezuela |