After breeding it spreads south to southern parts of Chile and north to Ecuador, and has also been recorded as far north as Panama and Colombia – probably a result of mass dispersal due to food shortage in El Niño years.
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The scientific name commemorates the French explorer Louis Antoine de Bougainville.
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