Little Cuckoo (Coccycua minuta)

Other Scientific Names
Piaya minuta [BirdLife International (2004)], Piaya minuta [SACC (2006)], Piaya minuta [Sibley and Monroe (1990, 1993)], Piaya minuta [Stotz et al. (1996)]

Family
Cuculidae (Cuckoos)

Size
25 cm

First Described (Guide)
(Vieillot, 1817)

Habitat
Subtropical and tropical lowland moist forest. From sea-level - 900 m.

Range (Guide)

Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, French Guiana, Guyana, Panama, Peru, Suriname, Trinidad and Tobago, Venezuela.

Population
Estimated population is unknown (2010).

Status LC
For more information see BirdLife International Species Factsheet.

Voice
Xeno-Canto Sound Files (more (63)...)

Little Cuckoo (Coccycua minuta) [XC639825]
by Jos\u00e9 Mar\u00eda Loaiza B. from Reserva Natural Cauquit\u00e1, Colombia (?)

Little Cuckoo (Coccycua) [XC364156]
by Caio Brito from Pichincha: Mindo area, Ecuador (call, double-noted call)

Subspecies
The following 5 subspecies are recognised:

panamensis (Vieillot, 1817) - Eastern Panama and northern Colombia west of Gulf of Urabá.
gracilis Heine, 1863 - Colombia west of Andes, and western Ecuador.
minuta (Vieillot, 1817) - Colombia east of Andes, Venezuela and Guianas south to Amazonian Peru, south-central Brazil (Goiás, Mato Grosso) and Bolivia; Trinidad.
chaparensis Cherrie, 1916 - Northern Bolivia.
barinensis Aveledo & Perez, 1994 - Extreme eastern Colombia and adjacent western Venezuela.

References
See References.

Files:

JPG files for Little Cuckoo (Coccycua minuta) - 10 files

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