Cuckoos (Cuculidae)
Lesser Roadrunner (Geococcyx velox) - HBW 4, p. 606
French: Géocoucou véloce
German: Rennkuckuck
Spanish: Correcaminos Chico
Taxonomy: Cuculus velox Wagner, 1836, Mexico.
Has on occasion been subdivided into as many as five races. Monotypic.
Distribution: W Mexico from S Sonora to Chiapas, on central plateau from Nayarit and Jalisco S to México, Morelos, Puebla, Veracruz and Oaxaca; also Yucatán, and Central America from Guatemala, El Salvador and Honduras to C Nicaragua.
- Least Concern Enlarge map
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A preening bird in a small tree, just after dawn. Locality Rio Lagartos, Yucatán State, Yucatán Peninsula, Mexico (Southern) (Monotypic species)
Pieter de Groot Boersma 28 July 2005 4 years ago 20 sec 4.8 -
A bird taking a sunbath in the early morning. Locality Rio Lagartos, Yucatán State, Yucatán Peninsula, Mexico (Southern) (Monotypic species)
Pieter de Groot Boersma 28 July 2005 4 years ago 31 sec 4.7 -
A preening bird in the early hours, using its uropygial gland in the process. Locality Rio Lagartos, Yucatán State, Yucatán Peninsula, Mexico (Southern) (Monotypic species)
Pieter de Groot Boersma 28 July 2005 4 years ago 55 sec 4.6 -
A perched bird in the top of a dead tree, looking around. Locality Rio Lagartos, Yucatán State, Yucatán Peninsula, Mexico (Southern) (Monotypic species)
Pieter de Groot Boersma 28 July 2005 4 years ago 33 sec 4.1
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singing male
Locality Rio Lagartos, Yucatán State, Yucatán Peninsula, Mexico (Southern) (Monotypic species)
Michael Retter 1 January 2008 2 years ago 2.3
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