Lesser Ground Cuckoo (Morococcyx erythropygus) [XC6404]
by Charlie Vogt from Santa Rosa National Park, Costa Rica (call)
Lesser Ground Cuckoo (Morococcyx erythropygus) [XC334198]
by Mario Reyes Jr from near Arriaga, Chiapas, Mexico (call)
Subspecies
The following 2 subspecies are recognised:
mexicanus Ridgway, 1915 - Pacific slope of tropical western Mexico from southern Sinaloa south to Isthmus of Tehuantepec.
erythropygus (Lesson, 1842) - Southern Mexico (hills of Oaxaca on eastern side of Plains of Tehuantepec east to Chiapas) to north-western Costa Rica, and also arid interior valleys on Caribbean slope of Guatemala and Honduras.