French: Géocoucou tacheté German: Streifenkuckuck Spanish: Cuclillo crespín
Other common names:
American Striped Cuckoo
S Mexico to E Panama and Colombia, E to the Guianas, including Margarita I (Venezuela) and Trinidad, and throughout Brazil S to W Ecuador, N Peru, Bolivia, Paraguay, N Argentina and Uruguay.
26–30 cm; male 40–58·4 g, female 40·4–59 g. Adult brown above, streaked buff and black, head with striped blackish and rufous crest, white... read more
Song 3–5 whistled notes, “pee-pee-pee-PEEdee”. Call a mellow whistle, second note... read more
Second-growth scrub, low seasonally wet grassland, river-island scrub, open country with scattered... read more
Food and feeding
Insects, especially grasshoppers, caterpillars; as with other parasitic cuckoos, young take whatever foster parents bring, including... read more
Breeds Jun in S Mexico (Oaxaca), nearly all year in Surinam, nearly all year in French Guiana, but sings most early in dry season. Brood-... read more
Resident in most of range; seasonal in Argentina, where adults migrate from breeding area (Tucum... read more
Status and conservation
Not globally threatened. A shy and solitary species, variably common to uncommon; call is one of typical sounds of areas of secondary growth in South America. Species has... read more
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