Dwarf Cuckoo (Coccycua pumila) | Photos and ID

LCLeast ConcernInvertebrates

WoodlandPlatform nestSmall · 37 g

Dwarf Cuckoo (Coccycua pumila), photo 1 — Photo: (c) Álvaro Rivas Godin, some rights reserved (CC BY) · CC-BY

Dwarf Cuckoo (Coccycua pumila), photo 2 — Photo: (c) Christoph Moning, some rights reserved (CC BY) · CC-BY

Dwarf Cuckoo (Coccycua pumila), photo 3 — Photo: (c) Dan Vickers, some rights reserved (CC BY) · CC-BY

Dwarf Cuckoo (Coccycua pumila), photo 4 — Photo: (c) scaup, some rights reserved (CC BY) · CC-BY

Dwarf Cuckoo (Coccycua pumila), photo 5 — Photo: no rights reserved · CC0

Dwarf Cuckoo (Coccycua pumila), photo 6 — Photo: (c) Todd Boland, some rights reserved (CC BY) · CC-BY

Dwarf Cuckoo (Coccycua pumila), photo 7 — Photo: (c) Luis G Restrepo, some rights reserved (CC BY) · CC-BY

Dwarf Cuckoo (Coccycua pumila), photo 8 — Photo: (c) johnyochum, some rights reserved (CC BY) · CC-BY

Dwarf Cuckoo (Coccycua pumila), photo 9 — Photo: no rights reserved · CC0

Dwarf Cuckoo (Coccycua pumila), photo 10 — Photo: (c) Guy Babineau, some rights reserved (CC BY) · CC-BY

When to see the Dwarf Cuckoo

One bar for each month, and every month is filled: this bird is recorded here in all twelve. The wide bar is May, the month with the most records.

Where to see the Dwarf Cuckoo

Regular rangeRare visitor

The map shades 3 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.

Colombia Venezuela Ecuador

Recorded as a rare visitor in Panama.

About the Dwarf Cuckoo

The dwarf cuckoo is a tropical American bird species of the cuckoo family (Cuculidae).

Text adapted from Wikipedia, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.

Easily confused with

Ash-colored CuckooCoccycua cinereaThe ash-colored cuckoo is an 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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