Birds of the World

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Genus: Sapayoa (1 species)


Sapayoa
Sapayoa (Sapayoa aenigma)
Range: MA, SA: e Panama to nw Ecuador
Bahia Solano, Choco, Colombia
  Often sits quietly on a midstory branch like a puffbird. 		   
Photograph by Tom Friedel   © All Rights Reserved.
The only bird in the Asian 'broadbill' family in the Americas, although now it has been moved out of that family and into its own.

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