Notharchus hyperrhynchus
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In 3 days ~10% in a week ~20%
The white-necked puffbird (Notharchus hyperrhynchus) is a species of bird in the family Bucconidae, the puffbirds, nunlets, and nunbirds. It is found in Mexico, Central America, Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, and Venezuela.
During the second half of the 20th century, the white-necked puffbird and what are now the buff-bellied puffbird (N. swainsoni) and Guianan puffbird (N. macrorhynchus) were treated as conspecific. Those in El Salvador and northwestern Nicaragua have been proposed as a third subspecies, N. h. cryptoleucus, and those in northeastern Colombia's Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta might be, too.
The white-necked puffbird is about 25 cm (9.8 in) long and weighs 81 to 106 g (2.9 to 3.7 oz).It is mostly glossy black. It has a broad white forehead, throat, upper breast, and most of the belly. A broad black band separates the last two, and a black stripe runs from the beak to the crown, passing through a dark red eye. The white of the throat extends as a fairly broad line around the nape. The lower... Wikipedia →
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| 1 | California Academy of Sciences | 🇺🇸 United States |
Rare
Under 5% of wildlife watchers report a White-necked Puffbird sighting in Darién National Park on a given day, based on 13 verified sightings from GBIF citizen-science data from 2019 to 2026. It is the 309th most-seen of the 397 birds we can rate there. Over three days the chance rises to about 10%, and over a week to about 20%, if each day is a fresh chance.
May and September
In those months about 10% of wildlife watchers report a White-necked Puffbird in Darién National Park on a given day, against under 5% in June–August and October–April, the lowest months.
Between 7 and 10 am
Across all the parks we cover, that three-hour window holds the most White-necked Puffbird sightings with a recorded time, and about 9 in 10 of them come between 6 am and 6 pm: it is a daytime animal.
25th of 35
Of the 35 parks where we can rate White-necked Puffbird sightings, Darién National Park ranks 25th at under 5%. The best odds are in Santa Rosa National Park (Costa Rica, about 20%), Tayrona National Natural Park (Colombia, about 20%) and Montes Azules Biosphere Reserve (Mexico, about 10%).
Same genus: Notharchus
The closest relatives of the White-necked Puffbird that you can see in Darién National Park (genus Notharchus, Black-and-white Puffbirds) are Pied Puffbird (about 20%) and Black-breasted Puffbird (about 10%), with each one's daily chance of a sighting.
GBIF citizen-science records
It is estimated from how often the White-necked Puffbird is recorded against all the birds logged in Darién National Park (13 verified sightings from 2019 to 2026), calibrated against known sighting rates. Figures are rounded to the nearest 10% because citizen-science data supports honest approximations, not decimals, and months with records from fewer than five people show "—". How it works.
