Striped Cuckoo (Tapera naevia) [XC871185]
by Daniel Capella from La Pi\u00f1uela, Cocorn\u00e1, Antioquia, Colombia (?)
Striped Cuckoo (Tapera naevia) [XC780421]
by Dante Buzzetti from Rinc\u00f3n de los Ciervos, Departamento de Artigas, Uruguay (call)
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.