Cuckoos (Cuculidae)
American Striped Cuckoo (Tapera naevia) - HBW 4, p. 605
French: Géocoucou tacheté
German: Streifenkuckuck
Spanish: Cuclillo Crespín
Other common names: Striped/Four-winged Cuckoo
Taxonomy: Cuculus nævius Linnaeus, 1766, Cayenne.
Additional race chochi sometimes recognized for birds of S Brazil and N Argentina on basis of larger size and colour of upperparts, but these populations overlap considerably in size and plumage with birds in N Brazil and Venezuela. Two subspecies normally recognized.
Subspecies and Distribution:
- excellens (P. L. Sclater, 1858) - S Mexico to E Panama.
- naevia (Linnaeus, 1766) - Colombia E to the Guianas, and S to W Ecuador, N Peru and Brazil and on S to Bolivia, Paraguay and N Argentina; Margarita I (Venezuela) and Trinidad.
- Least Concern Enlarge map
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A bird calling Locality Costa Rica (ssp excellens)
Max Roth 28 February 2001 6 years ago 23 sec 4.2 -
A bird calling on a branch Locality Costa Rica (ssp excellens)
Max Roth 28 February 2001 6 years ago 22 sec 4.2 -
A perched bird, gaping, scratching it's head and repeatedly raising it's crestfeathers out of excitement. Locality Weg naar Zee, Paramaribo, Paramaribo District, Suriname (ssp naevia)
Pieter de Groot Boersma 5 June 2011 30 weeks ago 27 sec 3.8 -
a male singing from a wire contiguous a farmland. Locality Finca La Vuelta Larga, Sucre State, Venezuela
DAVID ASCANIO 24 April 2008 1 year ago 14 sec 3.7 -
A male singing Locality Minas, Lavalleja Department, Uruguay
Alvaro Riccetto 9 December 2006 2 years ago 28 sec 3.4 -
A bird in a tree raising its crest Locality Linhares Biological Reserve, Espirito Santo State, Brazil (ssp naevia)
Josep del Hoyo 23 January 2005 4 years ago 35 sec 3.3
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A bird perched on a branch calling and raising its crest
Locality Barlovento, Miranda State, Venezuela (ssp naevia)
Eduardo López 20 July 2008 3 years ago 3.9 -
A bird on branch.
Locality Arteaga, Santa Fe Province, Argentina
Ricardo Moller Jensen 13 February 2009 3 years ago 3.7 -
A bird singing from a branch with erected crest (higher resolution available upon request)
Locality Sanare, Lara State, Venezuela (ssp naevia)
Gustavo A. Rodríguez 9 April 2012 2 weeks ago ADDED LAST MONTH 3.6 -
perching and singin
Locality Cosigüina, Chinandega Department, Nicaragua
Orlando Jarquín G. 21 February 2012 13 weeks ago 3 -
On a tree
Locality Armenia, Quindio Department, Colombia
oleicfrisbee 15 weeks ago 2.6 -
Calling along PanAmerican road, near Meteti.
Locality Darién Province, Panama
Octavio Rios 27 May 2008 1 year ago 2.4
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Singing , single, song Locality Icho Cruz, Córdoba Province, Argentina
(ssp naevia)
dreyernp 2 years ago 4 -
duet. Locality Caucaia, Ceará State, Brazil
(ssp naevia)
Ciro Albano 10 March 2007 3 years ago 4 -
Singin on the tip of a tree. Locality Somotillo, Chinandega Department, Nicaragua
Orlando Jarquín G. 26 May 2011 45 weeks ago 3
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