Rufous-vented Ground Cuckoo (Neomorphus geoffroyi) [XC86634]
by Richard E. Webster from Esta\u00e7\u00e3o de Pesquisa do Cangu\u00e7u - Pium - Tocantins State, Brazil (beak snaps)
Rufous-vented Ground Cuckoo (Neomorphus geoffroyi) [XC761772]
by Enrique Varela from Sinop, Mato Grosso, Estrada Clotilde, Brazil (call)
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