Collections//Cuckoos (Cuculidae)

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Cuckoos (Cuculidae)

Meet the 5 Puerto Rico bird records in the family Cuculidae.

5birds in this collection

Smooth-billed Ani

Yellow-billed Cuckoo

Black-billed Cuckoo

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Cuckoos (Cuculidae)

Meet the 5 Puerto Rico bird records in the family Cuculidae.

AI reconstruction of Smooth-billed Ani (Crotophaga ani)

0050

Native / natural occurrenceIUCN LC

Smooth-billed Ani

Garrapatero

Crotophaga ani

shrublands↗

AI reconstruction of Yellow-billed Cuckoo (Coccyzus americanus)

0051

Native / natural occurrenceIUCN LC

Yellow-billed Cuckoo

Pájaro Bobo Piquiamarillo

Coccyzus americanus

forests↗

AI reconstruction of Mangrove Cuckoo (Coccyzus minor)

0052

Native / natural occurrenceIUCN LC

Mangrove Cuckoo

Pájaro Bobo Menor

Coccyzus minor

forests↗

AI reconstruction of Black-billed Cuckoo (Coccyzus erythropthalmus)

0053

Accidental / vagrantIUCN LC

Black-billed Cuckoo

Pájaro Bobo Piquinegro

Coccyzus erythropthalmus

forests↗

AI reconstruction of Puerto Rican Lizard-Cuckoo (Coccyzus vieilloti)

0054

Puerto Rico endemicIUCN LC

Puerto Rican Lizard-Cuckoo

Pájaro Bobo Mayor

Coccyzus vieilloti

Dry and moist forest; woodland; karst; shade coffee and thickets↗

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Birds that use dry scrub, coastal thickets, shrublands and brushy habitat mosaics.

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Found nowhere else

Puerto Rico's Endemic Birds

Living birds and historically documented taxa whose natural range is centered on Puerto Rico or the Puerto Rico Bank.

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Occurrence in Puerto Rico

Resident Birds

Birds documented as year-round residents or resident breeders in the source catalog and Puerto Rico context records.

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Conservation

Least Concern Birds

Puerto Rico bird records assigned to the IUCN category Least Concern.

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