Squirrel Cuckoo (Piaya cayana subsp. measure) Sexes similar. Wildsumaco Lodge, Napo Province, Ecuador. Rain forest, subtropical elevational zone at ca. 1,400 m (4,593 ft) elevation. Foothills of the eastern-slope of the Andes overlooking Ro Pocono Valley.
In my travels in the Americas, I have frequently caught glimpses of this common species of tropical and subtropical cuckoo foraging in dense vegetation, and flying quickly from one foraging site to another, but on only a few of these occasions was the bird positioned so I could try for a...
Squirrel Cuickoo (Piaya cayana subsp. nigricrissa) Buenaventura Reserve, west of Pias, El Oro Province, Ecuador. Tropical cloud forest at ca. 800 m (2,625 ft) elevation.
Squirrel Cuckoo (Piaya cayana thermophila) Photographed near Jordonal, Panama Province, Panama, Caribbean-slope. Ro Jordonal riparian with secondary humid forest at ca. 610 m (2,000 ft) elevation. Sexes similar.
Squirrel Cuckoo (Piaya cayana thermophila) Fourteen subspecies are recognized with only subspecies thermophila being mapped for Panama. Photographed in semi-open ranch land grazed by cattle with secondary growth along a one lane dirt road lined with small to medium sized trees near El Chir...
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