Spotted puffbird
Bucco tamatia J. F. Gmelin, 1788
Status not recordedbirds
The spotted puffbird (Bucco tamatia) is a species in the family Bucconidae, order Piciformes. Recorded adults weigh 35.5 g to 44.1 g.
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Quick facts about the spotted puffbird
- Weight
- 35.5 g – 44.1 gsrc for Weight
- Length
- Not recorded
- Lifespan
- Not recorded
- Diet
- Invertivoresrc for Diet
- Main food
- Not recorded
- Habitat
- forestsrc for Habitat
- Young per litter or clutch
- 2src for Young per litter or clutch
- Lifestyle
- Perchingsrc for Lifestyle
- Migration
- Sedentarysrc for Migration
- Conservation status
- Not recorded
- Countries on record
- Not recorded
Where does the spotted puffbird live?
Not recorded
What is the spotted puffbird?
The spotted puffbird (Bucco tamatia) is a species of puffbird in the family Bucconidae, the puffbirds, nunlets, and nunbirds. It is found in Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, French Guiana, Guyana, Peru, Suriname, and Venezuela.
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Is the spotted puffbird endangered?
No conservation assessment is recorded for this species in our sources. That is not the same as being safe: it has not been matched to an assessment.
How is the spotted puffbird classified?
- kingdomAnimalia
- phylumChordata
- classAves
- orderPiciformes
- familyBucconidae
- genusBucco
- SpeciesBucco tamatia J. F. Gmelin, 1788
Synonyms Bucco brasiliensis, Bucco variegatus, Nystactes tamatia, Nystactes tamatia inexpectatus, Nystactes tamatia interior, Nystactes tamatia punctuliger, Tamatia tamatia
Other names and names in other languages (30)
- barbacoll pigallatCatalan
- lenivka skvrnitáCzech
- aderyn gwrychog mannogWelsh
- Plettet DovenfuglDanish
- FleckenfaulvogelGerman
- Tamatia-FaulvogelGerman
- makula bukonoEsperanto
- Buco moteadoSpanish
- tähnik-puhvlindEstonian
- oranssikurkkulaiskuriFinnish
- Tamatia tachetéFrench
- smeđoglavi hakuruCroatian
- Piumino macchiatoItalian
- マダラオオガシラJapanese
- dėmėtasis pūkuotasis tingiapaukštisLithuanian
- Gevlekte BaardkoekoekDutch
- tamatiadovenfuglNorwegian
- drzym wąsatyPolish
- Macuru-carijóPortuguese
- barbudo-pintalgadoPortuguese
- rapazinho-carijóPortuguese
- Пятнистая пуховкаRussian
- Пятнистая малакоптилаRussian
- lenivka tamatiaSlovak
- Pegavi pufSerbian
- fläckig trögfågelSwedish
- Benekli PufkuşuTurkish
- лінивка плямистогрудаUkrainian
- 斑蓬头䴕Chinese
- 點斑噴鴷Chinese
Relatives of the spotted puffbird
Other species in the same genus Bucco.
Chestnut-capped puffbird
Bucco macrodactylus
Collared puffbird
Bucco capensis
Sooty-capped puffbird
Bucco noanamae
CompareSpotted puffbird vs Chestnut-capped puffbirdSpotted puffbird vs Collared puffbirdSpotted puffbird vs Sooty-capped puffbirdSpotted puffbird vs Bucco indicus
Common questions
Answered only where our data holds the answer.
How big is the spotted puffbird?
An adult spotted puffbird weighs 35.5 g – 44.1 g, according to values recorded on Wikidata.
What kind of animal is the spotted puffbird?
The spotted puffbird (Bucco tamatia) belongs to the family Bucconidae in the order Piciformes.
Sources and how to cite this page
Data as of 2026-11-11. How this page is put together.
- An amniote life-history database to perform comparative analyses with birds, mammals, and reptiles · CC0 1.0 · E096-269
Myhrvold, N.P., Baldridge, E., Chan, B., Sivam, D., Freeman, D.L. & Ernest, S.K.M. (2015) An amniote life-history database to perform comparative analyses with birds, mammals, and reptiles. Ecology 96: 3109. https://doi.org/10.1890/15-0846R.1. Data: https://doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.3563457.v1 - AVONET: morphological, ecological and geographical data for all birds · CC BY 4.0 · v7
Tobias, J.A. et al. (2022) AVONET: morphological, ecological and geographical data for all birds. Ecology Letters 25: 581–597. https://doi.org/10.1111/ele.13898. Data: https://doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.16586228.v7 - Catalogue of Life eXtended Release · CC BY 4.0 · 2026-10-16 XR
Catalogue of Life (2026). Catalogue of Life eXtended Release, version 2026-10-16 XR. Catalogue of Life Foundation, Amsterdam, Netherlands. https://doi.org/10.48580/dgzlf - Wikimedia Commons · per file (CC0 / public domain / CC BY green, CC BY-SA amber, anything else not displayed) · 2026-11-11
Wikimedia Commons contributors. Wikimedia Commons. https://commons.wikimedia.org (each file credited to its author under its own licence). - Wikidata · CC0 1.0 · 2026-11-11
Wikidata contributors. Wikidata. https://www.wikidata.org (data retrieved via the Wikidata Query Service). - Wikipedia (English) · CC BY-SA 4.0 · 2026-11-11
Wikipedia contributors. Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia. https://en.wikipedia.org (text under CC BY-SA 4.0; each block names its article and revision).
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