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 LC    Mangrove Cuckoo* Id (Atlas):
    Coccyzus minor

Description (10)
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Other Names (World)
Mangrove Cuckoo, Maynard's Cuckoo

Family
Cuculidae (Cuckoos)

Size
30 cm

First Described (Guide)
(Gmelin, 1788)

Habitat
Subtropical and tropical mangroves. From sea-level - 1,250 m.

Range (Guide)
Anguilla, Antigua And Barbuda, Aruba, Bahamas, Barbados, Belize, Brazil, Cayman Islands, Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba, Dominica, Dominican Republic, El Salvador, French Guiana, Grenada, Guadeloupe, Guatemala, Guyana, Haiti, Honduras, Jamaica (B) (NB), Martinique, Mexico, Montserrat, Netherlands Antilles, Nicaragua, Panama, Puerto Rico, St Kitts And Nevis, St Lucia, St Vincent and The Grenadines, Suriname, Trinidad and Tobago, Turks and Caicos Islands, USA (B), Venezuela, Virgin Islands (British) (B) (NB), Virgin Islands (U.S.) (B) (NB).

Caribbean parts of Florida through Bahamas to Greater and Lesser Antilles, and southern Mexico (Sinaloa and Tamaulipas to Yucatán and Oaxaca) through Central America to Colombia, then east to estuary of Amazon; Trinidad.
 
Population
Estimated population is 200,000 (2010).

Status LC
For more information see BirdLife International Species Factsheet.

Voice
Xeno-Canto Sound Files (more (46)...)

 
Mangrove Cuckoo (Coccyzus minor) [XC814166]
     by GABRIEL LEITE from Bragan\u00e7a, Para, Brazil (call)

 
Mangrove Cuckoo (Coccyzus minor) [XC518322]
     by Hans Matheve from La Ensenada Lodge, Puntarenas, Costa Rica (call, song)

Subspecies
Forms a superspecies with Cocos Cuckoo (Coccyzus ferrugineus), with which has been considered conspecific.

Up to 13 subspecies have been described, but these were all based on small samples; larger series now available show no constant differences in colour or size among island populations in West Indies, or between island and continental populations.

No subspecies.


References
See References.


Files:
JPG files for Mangrove Cuckoo (Coccyzus minor) - 10 files


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