Lesser Ground Cuckoo (Morococcyx erythropygus) [XC694342]
by Sue Riffe from Canal Principal, Juchit\u00e1n de Zaragoza, Oaxaca, Mexico (song)
Lesser Ground Cuckoo (Morococcyx erythropygus) [XC274773]
by Manuel Grosselet from Bah\u00eda la Ventosa, Salina Cruz, Oaxaca, Mexico (song)
Subspecies
The following 2 subspecies are recognised:
mexicanus Ridgway, 1915 - Pacific slope of tropical western Mexico from southern Sinaloa south to Isthmus of Tehuantepec.
erythropygus (Lesson, 1842) - Southern Mexico (hills of Oaxaca on eastern side of Plains of Tehuantepec east to Chiapas) to north-western Costa Rica, and also arid interior valleys on Caribbean slope of Guatemala and Honduras.