Dark-billed cuckoo
| Dark-billed cuckoo | |
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| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Class: | Aves |
| Order: | Cuculiformes |
| Family: | Cuculidae |
| Genus: | Coccyzus |
| Species: | C. melacoryphus |
| Binomial name | |
| Coccyzus melacoryphus Vieillot, 1817 | |
The dark-billed cuckoo (Coccyzus melacoryphus) is a species of bird in the Cuculidae family, the cuckoos.
It is found in Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, French Guiana, Guyana, Paraguay, Peru, Suriname, Trinidad and Tobago, Uruguay and Venezuela. It has occurred as a vagrant in northern Chile, the Falkland Islands and Grenada.
Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical dry forests, subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests, and heavily degraded former forest.
References
- ↑ BirdLife International (2012). "Coccyzus melacoryphus". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2013.2. International Union for Conservation of Nature. Retrieved 26 November 2013.
External links
- Dark-billed Cuckoo videos on the Internet Bird Collection
- Dark-billed Cuckoo photo gallery VIREO Photo-High Res
- Photo-High Res; Article geometer–"Brazil Birds"
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