Eastern striolated puffbird
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| Species: | N. striolatus
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| Nystalus striolatus (Pelzeln, 1856)
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The eastern striolated puffbird (Nystalus striolatus) was considered conspecific with the western striolated puffbird (Nystalus obamai)[2][3]
It is found in Amazonian Brazil and Bolivia.[4]
Its natural habitat is subtropical and tropical moist lowland forests.
References
- ^ Template:IUCN
- ^ http://www.museum.lsu.edu/~Remsen/SACCBaseline.htm A Classification of the Bird Species of South America, hereafter SACC List. Accessed 7 November 2016.
- ^ Gill, F. and D. Donsker (Eds). 2016. IOC World Bird List (v 6.3). http://www.worldbirdnames.org/
- ^ Pacheco, José Fernando, and Carlos Eduardo Quevedo Agne. 2016. Species lists of birds for South American countries and territories: Brazil. Version of 2 November 2016. http://www.museum.lsu.edu/~Remsen/SACCCountryLists.htm
External links
- The Factious, High-Drama World of Bird Taxonomy, Andrew Jenner, The Atlantic, 28 February 2017. An lay article about the process to distinguish Western and Eastern striolated puffbird species.
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