Nombre en español: Cuco Piquioscuro

Nombre en ingles: Dark-billed Cuckoo

Nombre científico: Coccyzus melacoryphus

Familia: Cuculidae

Foto: Francisco Piedrahita/Rodrigo Gaviria

Canto: Jerome Fischer

El cuclillo canela o cuco de pico oscuro (Coccyzus melacoryphus) es una especie de ave en la familia Cuculidae.

Descripción

Mide en promedio 28,3 cm de longitud. Presenta píleo y lores negruzcos; dorso pardo grisáceo; partes inferiores blancuzcas manchadas de ante a canela o anaranjado; cola blanca y negra.

Distribución

Se encuentra en Argentina, Bolivia, Brasil, Colombia, Ecuador, Guayana Francesa, Guyana, Paraguay, Perú, Suriname, Trinidad y Tobago, Uruguay y Venezuela. También puede pasar por el norte de Chile, las Islas Malvinas y Granada.

Hábitat

Su hábitat natural son los bosques secos tropicales o subtropicales, bosques húmedos subtropicales o tropicales de tierras bajas y bosques antiguos muy degradados.

Dark-billed cuckoo

The dark-billed cuckoo (Coccyzus melacoryphus) is a species of bird in the Cuculidae family, the cuckoos.

It is found in Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, French Guiana, Guyana, Paraguay, Peru, Suriname, Trinidad and Tobago, Uruguay and Venezuela. It has occurred as a vagrant in northern Chile, the Falkland Islands, Grenada, and Florida.

Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical dry forests, subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests, and heavily degraded former forest.

A fairly common, albeit reclusive, resident of tropical deciduous forest and other open woodlands, Dark-billed Cuckoo has a large range and is well adapted to a variety of habitats. This species also inhabit a wide range of altitudes; it primarily occurs in the lowlands, but has been observed as high as 3600 m. Like other species of Coccyzus, Dark-billed Cuckoo is not a nest parasite and instead raises its own young, which can number as many as five per clutch. The diet of Dark-billed Cuckoo consists nearly entirely of terrestrial arthropods, with caterpillars, beetles, ants, and grasshoppers being its favorite prey.