Cuckoos (Cuculidae)
Smooth-billed Ani (Crotophaga ani) - HBW 4, p. 602
French: Ani à bec lisse
German: Glattschnabelani
Spanish: Garrapatero Aní
Other common names: Black Witch, Tick Bird
Taxonomy: Crotophaga Ani Linnaeus, 1758, Jamaica.
Monotypic.
Distribution: C & S Florida, Bahamas, Caribbean Islands, Trinidad, Tobago; locally in Mexico (mainland and islands of Quintana Roo), Costa Rica and Panama, and S on W coast to Ecuador, E of Andes from Venezuela and the Guianas through E South American lowlands to N Uruguay and Chaco to N Argentina.
- Least Concern
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A group of three birds perched and preening together. A second view showing an adult arriving to a branch where a juvenile is pe Curicaca Wildlife Preservation Area, Pantanal, Mato Grosso, Brazil (Monotypic species)
Alex García 5 July 2008 1 year ago 30 sec 4.7 -
A bird foraging in the undergrowth Santa Cruz, Galapagos Islands (Monotypic species)
Anna Motis 22 August 2005 2 years ago 39 sec 4.5 -
A bird on a pole, another one arriving and trying to practice courtship feeding, then both flying away Loro Orejiamarillo Natural Reserve, Jardín, Antioquía Department, Colombia (Monotypic species)
Josep del Hoyo 15 February 2007 2 years ago 38 sec 4.5 -
A bird calling from a wire Chapadao do Ceu, Goiás, Brazil (Monotypic species)
Josep del Hoyo 8 January 2005 3 years ago 39 sec 4.4 -
A bird calling and displaying Sani Lodge, Orellana Province, Ecuador
Juan Sanabria 1 April 2006 46 weeks ago 34 sec 4.2 -
Two birds taking care of their plumage on a branch Los Naranjos, Caracas, Distrito Capital, Venezuela (Monotypic species)
David Ascanio 30 September 2003 2 years ago 58 sec 4.2
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Dorsal view of an adult perched on a fern. Aragua, Venezuela (Monotypic species)
philgunson 28 March 2009 1 year ago 4.3 -
Close up of the head, showing the notch between the ridge on the upper mandible and the head. Aragua, Venezuela (Monotypic species)
philgunson 28 March 2009 1 year ago 4.2 -
Kiss me babe ! Guatemala, Kourou, French Guiana
Patrick Ingremeau 27 May 2008 7 weeks ago 4 -
Perched French Guiana
Patrick Ingremeau 21 August 2008 8 weeks ago 4 -
A bird on a branch. Venezuela Isla Margarita (pol. Kleszczojad gladkodzioby) Venezuela (Monotypic species)
Boguslaw Roguski 25 February 2010 23 weeks ago 4 -
Lateral view of perched bird Puerto Rico (Monotypic species)
Mikko Pyhälä 3 May 2009 1 year ago 4
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Two calls. Riacho de Santana, Rio Grande do Norte, Brazil
(Monotypic species)
Ciro Albano 26 March 2008 1 year ago 3
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