White-necked puffbird

White-necked puffbird
Conservation status
Least Concern (IUCN 3.1)
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Aves
Order:	Piciformes
Family:	Bucconidae
Genus:	Notharchus
Species:	N. hyperrhynchus
Binomial name
Notharchus hyperrhynchus (Sclater, 1856)
Synonyms
Notharchus macrorhynchos hyperrhynchus

The white-necked puffbird (Notharchus hyperrhynchus) is a species of puffbird in the Bucconidae family.

It is found in forest and woodland from southern Mexico through Central America to the Chocó, northern Colombia (including Magdalena Valley), northern Venezuela, and the western and southern Amazon Basin.

This bird measures 25 cm (9.8 in) long. It is mainly black and white, with a prominent black band separating the white chest and belly. This is contrasted on the back with a white neck band separating the black back from the crown. A black eyestripe runs from the beak to the crown, passing through a dark red eye. The bill is massive and black.

It was formerly considered a subspecies of the Guianan puffbird (N. macrorhynchos). The two differ markedly in bill-size (N. hyperrhynchus larger-billed than N. macrorhynchos), plumage (among other things, N. hyperrhynchus has less black to the flanks and more white to the forecrown than N. macrorhynchos), and voice. Consequently, the two were separated by SACC in 2004.

External links

• White-necked puffbird videos, photos, and sounds at the Internet Bird Collection
• White-necked puffbird Stamps from Belize at bird-stamps.org
• White-necked puffbird photo gallery at VIREO (Drexel University)
• BirdLife species factsheet for Notharchus hyperrhynchus
• White-necked puffbird species account at NeotropicalBirds (Cornell University)

• Interactive range map of Notharchus hyperrhynchus at IUCN Red List maps
• Audio recordings of White-necked puffbird on Xeno-canto.