Bucco Explained

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.^[1] The name is from the Latin bucca for "cheek".^[2]

Extant Species

The genus contains four species:^[3]

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

Notes and References

1. Book: Brisson, Mathurin Jacques . Mathurin Jacques Brisson . 1760 . Ornithologie, ou, Méthode contenant la division des oiseaux en ordres, sections, genres, especes & leurs variétés . French, Latin . Paris . Jean-Baptiste Bauche . Vol. 1 p. 42, Vol 4 p. 91 .
2. Web site: Jobling . J.A. . 2018 . Key to Scientific Names in Ornithology . del Hoyo . J. . Elliott . A. . Sargatal . J. . Christie . D.A. . de Juana . E. . Handbook of the Birds of the World Alive . Lynx Edicions . 3 April 2018 .
3. Web site: Gill . Frank . Frank Gill (ornithologist) . Donsker . David . 2018 . Jacamars, puffbirds, toucans, barbets, honeyguides . World Bird List Version 8.1 . International Ornithologists' Union . 3 April 2018 .