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 LC    Striped Cuckoo* Id (Atlas):
    Tapera naevia

Description (10)
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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.

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) [XC719867]
     by JAYRSON ARAUJO DE OLIVEIRA from Pioj\u00f3, Atlantico, Colombia (call, llamado de temporada reproductiva)

 
Striped Cuckoo (Tapera naevia) [XC275236]
     by Diego Cueva from Esmeraldas: San Miguel, R\u00edo Cayapas, Ecuador (duet)

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


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