Ash-colored Cuckoo (Coccycua cinerea) | Photos and ID

LCLeast ConcernInvertebrates

ShrublandPlatform nestSmall · 41 g

Ash-colored Cuckoo (Coccycua cinerea), photo 2 — Photo: Fabiorochapina · Public domain

Ash-colored Cuckoo (Coccycua cinerea), photo 3 — Photo: (c) Nicolas Olejnik, some rights reserved (CC BY) · CC-BY

Ash-colored Cuckoo (Coccycua cinerea), photo 4 — Photo: (c) RAP, some rights reserved (CC BY) · CC-BY

Ash-colored Cuckoo (Coccycua cinerea), photo 5 — Photo: (c) Pablo H Capovilla, some rights reserved (CC BY) · CC-BY

Ash-colored Cuckoo (Coccycua cinerea), photo 6 — Photo: (c) Leonel Roget, some rights reserved (CC BY) · CC-BY

Ash-colored Cuckoo (Coccycua cinerea), photo 7 — Photo: (c) Ezequiel Racker, some rights reserved (CC BY) · CC-BY

Ash-colored Cuckoo (Coccycua cinerea), photo 8 — Photo: (c) Gabriel Reinoso Franchino, some rights reserved (CC BY) · CC-BY

Ash-colored Cuckoo (Coccycua cinerea), photo 9 — Photo: no rights reserved · CC0

Ash-colored Cuckoo (Coccycua cinerea), photo 10 — Photo: (c) Pablo H Capovilla, some rights reserved (CC BY) · CC-BY

When to see the Ash-colored Cuckoo

One bar for each month. Filled bars are the 7 months with records; pale bars are months with none. The wide bar is December, the month with the most records.

Where to see the Ash-colored Cuckoo

Regular rangeRare visitor

The map shades 6 countries with regular records, and 1 more in a lighter tone where the bird turns up only as a stray. Everything unshaded has no records. Countries are listed below the map.

Argentina Uruguay Brazil Paraguay Bolivia Peru

Recorded as a rare visitor in Colombia.

About the Ash-colored Cuckoo

The ash-colored cuckoo is an American bird species of the cuckoo family (Cuculidae).

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Easily confused with

Dwarf CuckooCoccycua pumilaThe dwarf cuckoo is a tropical American bird species of the cuckoo family (Cuculidae).

Little CuckooCoccycua minutaThis species is about 27 centimetres (11 in) long and weighs 40 grams (1.4 oz).

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