Rufous Potoo

Rufous Potoo
Rufous Potoo
Conservation status
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves
(unranked): Cypselomorphae
Order: Caprimulgiformes
Family: Nyctibiidae
Genus: Nyctibius
Species: N. bracteatus
Binomial name
Nyctibius bracteatus
Gould, 1846

The Rufous Potoo (Nyctibius bracteatus) is a species of bird in the Nyctibiidae family. It is found in Ecuador, (the northeast, about 25 % of the country), and Peru in the largest population, and the other large disjunct population 1600 km southwest at the Peru and Bolivia border, (about 1/30th of Peru). Other far smaller locales, occur in Brazil, Colombia, French Guiana, and Guyana. Its natural habitat is subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests.

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