Rufous-vented Ground Cuckoo

Taxonomy

Order

Cuculiformes

Family

Cuculidae

Genus

Neomorphus

eBird Code

rvgcuc1

Subspecies (6)

• Neomorphus geoffroyi aequatorialis

  tropical southeastern Colombia to eastern Ecuador and northern Peru

• Neomorphus geoffroyi amazonicus

  poorly known, but generally Amazonian Brazil south of the Amazon River, except for south bank regions occupied by Scaled Ground-Cuckoo; records from northeastern Bolivia presumably also are amazonicus

• Neomorphus geoffroyi australis

  southern Peru and northwestern Bolivia

• Neomorphus geoffroyi dulcis

  eastern Brazil (Espírito Santo to Rio de Janeiro)

• Neomorphus geoffroyi geoffroyi

  distribution very poorly known, type locality in east-central Bahia, Brazil

• Neomorphus geoffroyi salvini

  humid lowlands of Nicaragua to Pacific coast of Colombia