Ash-colored Cuckoo
Coccycua cinerea
IUCN: Least Concern
Taxonomy
- Order
- Cuculiformes
- Family
- Cuculidae
- Genus
- Coccycua
- eBird Code
- asccuc1
Taxonomy Changes
Coccyzus cinereus → Coccycua cinerea
Genus transfer — GBIF Backbone Taxonomy uses the former name; AviList 2025 uses the current name.
Distribution
breeds Paraguay, northern Argentina, southern Brazil, and Uruguay; winters northward at least to Bolivia and western Brazil south of the Amazon River, rarely to eastern Peru and southeastern Colombia
Vocalizations
Matias Cabezas · CC_BY_4_0
Pablo H Capovilla · CC_BY_4_0
Data Sources
Bird images and sounds sourced from GBIF, contributed by citizen scientists worldwide under Creative Commons licenses.
Taxonomy data from AviList 2025.