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The banded ground cuckoo is about 46 cm (18 in) long, about half of which is its tail, and weighs about 400 g (14 oz). Adults have a heavy decurved bill with a black to dusky maxilla and a grayish mandible tipped with blue-gray. Males and females have the same plumage. Adults have a black forehead and crown and a shaggy, glossy, blue-black, erectile crest. Their face is dark with bare blue skin behind the eye. Their hindneck is glossy blue-black and their upper back black with white edges giving a scaly appearance.
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When to see the Banded Ground Cuckoo
One bar for each month. Filled bars are the 11 months with records; pale bars are months with none. The wide bar is January, the month with the most records.
Where to see the Banded Ground Cuckoo
The map shades 2 countries with regular records. Everything unshaded has no records. Countries are listed below the map.
About the Banded Ground Cuckoo
The banded ground cuckoo is a vulnerable species of cuckoo in the tribe Neomorphini of subfamily Crotophaginae. It is found in Colombia and Ecuador.
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Easily confused with
Rufous-winged Ground CuckooNeomorphus rufipennisThe rufous-winged ground cuckoo is 48 to 56 cm (19 to 22 in) long, about half of which is its tail.
Scaled Ground CuckooNeomorphus squamigerThe scaled ground cuckoo is about 43 cm (17 in) long, about half of which is its tail, and weighs about 340 g (12 oz).
Red-billed Ground CuckooNeomorphus pucheraniiThe red-billed ground cuckoo is 43 to 55 cm (17 to 22 in) long, about half of which is its tail.
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