Cuckoos (Cuculidae)
Rufous-vented Ground-cuckoo (Neomorphus geoffroyi) - HBW 4, p. 606
French: Géocoucou de Geoffroy
German: Geoffroykuckuck
Spanish: Cuco-hormiguero Ventrirrufo
Other common names: Scaled Ground-cuckoo (squamiger)
Taxonomy: Coccyzus geoffroyi Temminck, 1820, Pará, Brazil.
Form squamiger may be better treated as a full species. Seven subspecies currently recognized.
Subspecies and Distribution:
- salvini P. L. Sclater, 1866 - Nicaragua, Costa Rica, Panama and Pacific coast of Colombia.
- aequatorialis Chapman, 1923 - SE Colombia, Ecuador and N Peru.
- australis Carriker, 1935 - Peru and NW Bolivia.
- salvini P. L. Sclater, 1866 - Nicaragua, Costa Rica, Panama and Pacific coast of Colombia.
- aequatorialis Chapman, 1923 - SE Colombia, Ecuador and N Peru.
- australis Carriker, 1935 - Peru and NW Bolivia.
- geoffroyi (Temminck, 1820) - Brazil S of Amazon (Para).
- squamiger Todd, 1925 - Brazil S of Amazon (lower R Tapajóz area).
- maximiliani Pinto, 1962 - E Brazil (Bahia).
- dulcis Snethlage, 1927 - SE Brazil (Espirito Santo to Rio de Janeiro).
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bird following an antswarm
Locality El Valle de Antón, Coclé Province, Panama (ssp salvini)
ALBERTO GARCIA RIOS 21 January 2009 3 years ago 4.6 -
Rufous-vented Ground-cuckoo (Neomorphus geoffroyi)found in the trails of Panama Rainforest Discovery Center, following a army an
Locality Pipeline Road, Soberanía National Park, Panama
Christian Gernez 1 April 2010 1 year ago 3.4
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