Ash-Coloured Cuckoo
Coccycua cinerea(Vieillot, LJP, 1817)
English (US) Ash-colored Cuckoo
UK name: Ash-Coloured Cuckoo
The Ash-Coloured Cuckoo (Coccycua cinerea) is a bird species documented in the AviList Global Avian Checklist. On BirdGuides.io, 0 professional guides specialise in helping birdwatchers observe this species. It belongs to the family Cuculidae (Cuckoos) in the order Cuculiformes.
Range: breeds Paraguay, northern Argentina, southern Brazil, and Uruguay; winters northward at least to Bolivia and western Brazil south of the Amazon River, rarely to eastern Peru and southeastern ColombiaRange summary from AviList, in English.
- Scientific name
- Coccycua cinerea
- Family
- Cuculidae (Cuckoos)
- Order
- Cuculiformes
- IUCN Red List
- Least Concern
- English (US)
- Ash-colored Cuckoo
- English (UK)
- Ash-Coloured Cuckoo
- Described by
- (Vieillot, LJP, 1817)
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Add Your ExpertiseTaxonomic history
- First described as
- Coccyzus cinereus
- Described by
- (Vieillot, LJP, 1817)
- Type locality
- Paraguay.
- Original description
- Nouveau dictionnaire d'histoire naturelle, appliquée aux arts, à l'agriculture, à l'économie rurale et domestique, à la médecine, etc. Nouvelle édition 8 p.272
Nomenclatural data from the AviList checklist, quoted in the language of the original sources.
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Clamator coromandus
Great Spotted Cuckoo
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Levaillant's Cuckoo
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Jacobin Cuckoo
Clamator jacobinus
Little Cuckoo
Coccycua minuta
Dwarf Cuckoo
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Common Squirrel Cuckoo
Piaya cayana
Mexican Squirrel Cuckoo
Piaya mexicana
Black-bellied Cuckoo
Piaya melanogaster
Dark-billed Cuckoo
Coccyzus melacoryphus
Yellow-billed Cuckoo
Coccyzus americanus
Pearly-breasted Cuckoo
Coccyzus euleri
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