---
title: "Witsnorbaardkoekoek"
description: "Malacoptila panamensis — Vogels. The white-whiskered puffbird (Malacoptila panamensis), also called the white-whiskered soft-wing or brown puffbird, is a near-passerine bird in the family Bucconidae, the puffbirds, nunlets, and nunbirds."
canonical: https://animalchecklist.com/nl/animal/white-whiskered-puffbird
last_updated: 2026-09-20
---

# Witsnorbaardkoekoek

> Malacoptila panamensis — Vogels. The white-whiskered puffbird (Malacoptila panamensis), also called the white-whiskered soft-wing or brown puffbird, is a near-passerine bird in the family Bucconidae, the puffbirds, nunlets, and nunbirds.

- Scientific name: *Malacoptila panamensis*
- Category: `birds` (Vogels)
- Habitats: `forest` (Bos), `jungle` (Jungle)
- iNaturalist observations: 1988
- Wikidata: [Q788821](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q788821)
- iNaturalist taxon: [1514](https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/1514)

## Names

- en: White-whiskered Puffbird
- de: Weißzügel-Faulvogel
- es: Buco barbón
- fr: Tamatia de Lafresnaye
- nl: Witsnorbaardkoekoek
- pl: Drzym białowąsy

## Countries with the most observations

CR (786), PA (540), BZ (136), EC (120), MX (109), CO (100), GT (78), HN (13), NI (9)

## Summary

The white-whiskered puffbird (Malacoptila panamensis), also called the white-whiskered soft-wing or brown puffbird, is a near-passerine bird in the family Bucconidae, the puffbirds, nunlets, and nunbirds. It is found from southeastern Mexico through Central America (except El Salvador), Colombia, and Ecuador into Peru.

Text: Wikipedia (en), CC BY-SA 4.0 — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White-whiskered_puffbird

## Photo

![Witsnorbaardkoekoek](https://animalchecklist.com/img/animals/white-whiskered-puffbird/medium.jpg)

Photo: Dario Taraborelli · CC0 · inaturalist — https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/104374140

## Machine access

`GET https://animalchecklist.com/api/v1/animals/white-whiskered-puffbird?lang=nl` — see [openapi.json](https://animalchecklist.com/openapi.json).