Guira Cuckoo

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Photo by gaviao-real
Ilha de Marajó, Brazil, July 2007

Guira guira

Identification

• Rufous crest
• Orange-yellow bill and eye

Distribution

South America: found in north-eastern Brazil to Bolivia, Paraguay, Uruguay and central Argentina.

Photo by Gary Clark
Costanera Sur Ecological Reserve, Buenos Aires, Argentina, January 2008

Taxonomy

This is a monotypic species^[1].

Habitat

Found in a wide variety of habitats from tropical semidecidous forest at an elevation of ca. 2 m (6.6 ft) down through open woodland,marshes, fields savanna, city gardens and parks and coastal woodsland.

References

1. Clements, JF. 2011. The Clements Checklist of Birds of the World. 6th ed., with updates to August 2011. Ithaca: Cornell Univ. Press. ISBN 978-0801445019. Spreadsheet available at http://www.birds.cornell.edu/clementschecklist/downloadable-clements-checklist
2. BF Member observations

• List of references

Recommended Citation

• BirdForum Opus contributors. (2024) Guira Cuckoo. In: BirdForum, the forum for wild birds and birding. Retrieved 23 April 2024 from https://www.birdforum.net/opus/Guira_Cuckoo

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