Striped Cuckoo (Tapera naevia)

Other Names (World)
Striped Cuckoo, American Striped Cuckoo, Four-winged Cuckoo

Family
Cuculidae (Cuckoos)

Size
28 - 30 cm

First Described (Guide)
(Linnaeus, 1766)

Habitat
Subtropical and tropical lowland moist shrubland, heavily degraded former forest. From sea-level - 1,500 m.

Range (Guide)

Argentina, Belize, Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Costa Rica, Ecuador, El Salvador, French Guiana, Guatemala, Guyana, Honduras, Mexico, Nicaragua, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, Suriname, Trinidad and Tobago, Uruguay (B), Venezuela.

Rarity Status
Currently this species is not classified as a rarity in this country OR information has not been updated.

Population
Estimated population is 500,000 - 4,999,999 (2010).

Status LC
For more information see BirdLife International Species Factsheet.

Voice
Xeno-Canto Sound Files (more (91)...)

Striped Cuckoo (Tapera naevia) [XC883510]
by Rosendo Manuel Fraga from Cana\u00e3 dos Caraj\u00e1s, State of Par\u00e1, Brazil (song)

Striped Cuckoo (Tapera naevia) [XC428047]
by Victor Antonelli from S\u00edtio Pau Preto, Potengi-CE, Cear\u00e1, Brazil (canto 2)

Subspecies
Additional subspecies chochi sometimes recognized for birds of southern Brazil and northern Argentina on basis of larger size and colour of upperparts, but these populations overlap considerably in size and plumage with birds in northern Brazil and Venezuela.

The following 2 subspecies are recognised:

excellens (Linnaeus, 1766) - Southern Mexico to eastern Panama.
naevia (Linnaeus, 1766) - Colombia east to the Guianas, and south to western Ecuador, northern Peru and Brazil and on south to Bolivia, Paraguay and northern Argentina; Margarita I (Venezuela) and Trinidad.

References
See References.

Files:

JPG files for Striped Cuckoo (Tapera naevia) - 10 files

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