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UrbanPlatform nestMedium · 141 g
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The guira cuckoo has a total length of approximately 34 cm (13 in) and weighs 140 g (4.9 oz). The sexes are very similar in appearance, except that the female is slightly larger than the male. Juveniles appear quite similar to adults. The species has dark brown upperparts streaked with white, and whitish-buff throat, breast, underparts and rump. The tail is relatively long and broad, dark brown in color with a white-tip, and the legs are dark gray. The eyes and beak are yellow to orange, with a thin ring of featherless yellow skin around the eye (this commonly fades in captivity).
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When to see the Guira Cuckoo
One bar for each month, and every month is filled: this bird is recorded here in all twelve. The wide bar is October, the month with the most records.
Where to see the Guira Cuckoo
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.
Recorded as a rare visitor in Peru.
About the Guira Cuckoo
The guira cuckoo, known in Spanish as the pirincho is a species of gregarious bird found widely in open and semi-open habitats of northeastern, eastern and southern Brazil, Uruguay, Paraguay, Bolivia, and northeastern Argentina. It is the only species placed in the genus Guira.
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Easily confused with
Common Hawk-CuckooHierococcyx variusThe common hawk-cuckoo is a medium- to large-sized cuckoo, about the size of a pigeon (ca. 34 cm).
Fan-tailed CuckooCacomantis flabelliformisThe fan-tailed cuckoo is about 25–27 cm (9.8–10.6 in) long.
Black-billed CuckooCoccyzus erythropthalmusAdults have a long, graduated brown tail and a black, slightly downcurved bill.
Side by side: Common Hawk-Cuckoo vs Guira Cuckoo · Black-billed Cuckoo vs Guira Cuckoo · Fan-tailed Cuckoo vs Guira Cuckoo
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