Description

White-necked Puffbird, Tiputini Research Station

This bird landed on a branch of the tree around which the observation tower is built. The top deck of the tower is over 100 feet above the forest floor and the puffbird was ten feet higher. It remained motionless for a few minutes then suddenly flew quickly to another branch, seizing an anole. It lit above us, adjusted the anole in its bill, and then flew off to consume the hapless lizard.