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 VU    Rufous-vented Ground-cuckoo* Id (Atlas):
    Neomorphus geoffroyi

Description (10)
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Other Names (World)
Rufous-vented Ground-Cuckoo, Scaled Ground-cuckoo (squamiger), Rufous-vented Ground Cuckoo

Family
Cuculidae (Cuckoos)

Size
46 - 50 cm

First Described (Guide)
(Temminck, 1820)

Range (Guide)
Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Costa Rica, Ecuador, Nicaragua, Panama, Peru.

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

Population
Estimated population is unknown (2010).

Status VU
For more information see BirdLife International Species Factsheet.

Voice
Xeno-Canto Sound Files (more (21)...)

 
Rufous-vented Ground Cuckoo (Neomorphus geoffroyi) [XC18613]
     by Huw Lloyd from La Mesa, Cocle Province, Panama (call)

 
Rufous-vented Ground Cuckoo (Neomorphus geoffroyi) [XC15743]
     by Ken Allaire from Cristalino Jungle Lodge, MT, Brazil (song)

Subspecies
The following 8 subspecies are recognised:

  • salvini Sclater, PL, 1866   -  Nicaragua, Costa Rica, Panama and Pacific coast of Colombia.
  • aequatorialis Chapman, 1923   -  South-eastern Colombia, Ecuador and northern Peru.
  • australis Carriker, 1935   -  Peru and north-western Bolivia.
  • geoffroyi (Temminck, 1820)   -  Brazil south of Amazon (Para).
  • squamiger Todd, 1925   -  Central Amazonian Brazil (the south side of the Amazon River on both banks of the lower Rio Tapajós, east to the east bank of the Rio Xingu, and south to the upper Tapajós drainage). Considered by some authors to be a distinct species, Scaled Ground-Cuckoo (Neomorphus squamiger).
  • maximiliani Pinto, 1962   -  Eastern Brazil (Bahia).
  • dulcis Snethlage, E, 1927   -  South-eastern Brazil (Espirito Santo to Rio de Janeiro).
  • amazonicus Pinto, 1964   -  Poorly known, but generally Amazonian Brazil south of the Amazon, except for south bank regions occupied by Scaled Ground-Cuckoo; records from north-eastern Bolivia presumably also are amazonicus.



References
See References.


Files:
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