Little Cuckoo (Coccycua minuta) | Photos and ID

LCLeast ConcernInvertebrates

ForestCup nestSmall · 39 g

Little Cuckoo (Coccycua minuta), photo 6 — Photo: (c) Emerson Neves Batista, some rights reserved (CC BY) · CC-BY

Little Cuckoo (Coccycua minuta), photo 7 — Photo: (c) Imrick B., some rights reserved (CC BY) · CC-BY

Little Cuckoo (Coccycua minuta), photo 8 — Photo: (c) Sebastian Serna Muñoz, some rights reserved (CC BY) · CC-BY

Little Cuckoo (Coccycua minuta), photo 9 — Photo: (c) Millie Basden, some rights reserved (CC BY) · CC-BY

Little Cuckoo (Coccycua minuta), photo 10 — Photo: (c) Christoph Moning, some rights reserved (CC BY) · CC-BY

ID tip

This species is about 27 centimetres (11 in) long and weighs 40 grams (1.4 oz). The adult is mainly chestnut brown, with a greyish lower belly, browner tail and white tips to the tail feathers. The bill is yellow, short, and decurved; the iris of the eyes is red. Immature birds are dark brown with a black bill and no white tail tips. It is smaller and the throat is darker than in the squirrel cuckoo. The little cuckoo makes harsh chek and kak calls.

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When to see the Little 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 Little Cuckoo

Regular range

The map shades 12 countries with regular records. Everything unshaded has no records. Countries are listed below the map.

Colombia Ecuador Brazil Peru Guyana French Guiana Venezuela Panama Suriname Trinidad & Tobago Bolivia Paraguay

About the Little Cuckoo

The little cuckoo is a species of bird in the cuckoo family (Cuculidae) from South America and Panama. It was formerly placed in the genus Piaya, but was moved to the reinstated genus Coccycua following the discovery that its closest living relatives are a couple species traditionally placed in Coccyzus or Micrococcyx, rather than the other members of Piaya.

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Easily confused with

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

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

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