Smooth-billed Ani (Crotophaga ani)

Other Names (World)
Smooth-billed Ani, Black Witch, Tick Bird

Family
Cuculidae (Cuckoos)

Size
33 - 40 cm

First Described (Guide)
Linnaeus, 1758

Habitat
Subtropical and tropical heavily degraded former forest. Also, subtropical and tropical lowland moist forest, pastureland, inland wetlands. From sea-level - 2,300 m.

Range (Guide)

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

Central and southern Florida, Bahamas, Caribbean Islands, Trinidad, Tobago; locally in Mexico (mainland and islands of Quintana Roo), Costa Rica and Panama, and southern on western coast to Ecuador, east of Andes from Venezuela and the Guianas through eastern South American lowlands to northern Uruguay and Chaco to northern Argentina.

Population
Estimated population is 20,000,000 (2010).

Status LC
For more information see BirdLife International Species Factsheet.

Voice
Xeno-Canto Sound Files (more (71)...)

Smooth-billed Ani (Crotophaga ani) [XC421476]
by Fernando Igor de Godoy from \u00c1rea urbana - Itapebi, Bahia, Brazil (alarm call)

Smooth-billed Ani (Crotophaga ani) [XC398755]
by Breno Dias Vitorino from Colonia Garibaldi-Departamento de Salto, Uruguay (song)

Subspecies
No subspecies.

References
See References.

Files:

JPG files for Smooth-billed Ani (Crotophaga ani) - 10 files

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