Rufous-vented Ground Cuckoo (Neomorphus geoffroyi) [XC528236]
by Jacob Wijpkema from Camino a Reserva Biol\u00f3gica Alberto Manuel Brenes, San Ram\u00f3n, Provincia de Alajuela, Costa Rica (claps, non vocal)
Rufous-vented Ground Cuckoo (Neomorphus geoffroyi) [XC712629]
by JAYRSON ARAUJO DE OLIVEIRA from Altos de Campana National Park (near Campana, Panama), Capira District, Panam\u00e1, Panama (bill snapping)
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.
BirdLife International Species Factsheet