It is found in Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, French Guiana, Guyana, Peru, Suriname, and Venezuela.

[4] Although Brisson coined Latin names, these do not conform to the binomial system and are not recognised by the International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature.

[5] When in 1766 the Swedish naturalist Carl Linnaeus updated his Systema Naturae for the twelfth edition he added 240 species that had been previously described by Brisson.

Linnaeus included a terse description, coined the binomial name Bucco capensis, and cited Brisson's work.

[6] The specific epithet capensis denotes the Cape of Good Hope where Linnaeus mistakenly believed the birds occurred.

[8] The collared puffbird hunts by sallying from a shaded perch to pluck prey from foliage, bark, or the forest floor.

It lays its two glossy white eggs in a cavity excavated in an arboreal termitarium or rotted tree trunk.