Common Squirrel Cuckoo

Taxonomy

Order

Cuculiformes

Family

Cuculidae

Genus

Piaya

Vocalizations

Subspecies (13)

• Piaya cayana cabanisi

  south-central Brazil (central Mato Grosso and adjacent Goiás)

• Piaya cayana cayana

  Río Orinoco Valley of Venezuela to the Guianas and northern Brazil

• Piaya cayana circe

  western Venezuela (region south of Lake Maracaibo)

• Piaya cayana hellmayri

  Brazil south of the Amazon River (Santarém to Amazon River delta)

• Piaya cayana insulana

  Trinidad

• Piaya cayana macroura

  southeastern Brazil to Paraguay, Uruguay, and northeastern Argentina

• Piaya cayana mehleri

  northeastern Colombia and coastal northern Venezuela eastward to Paría Peninsula

• Piaya cayana mesura

  Colombia east of the Andes and eastern Ecuador

• Piaya cayana mogenseni

  southern Bolivia and adjacent northwestern Argentina

• Piaya cayana nigricrissa

  western Colombia (west slope of western Andes, the Cauca Valley, and the east slope of the northern central Andes), western Ecuador, and far northwestern Peru (Tumbes and Piura)

• Piaya cayana obscura

  Brazil south of the Amazon River (Rio Juruá to Rio Tapajós)

• Piaya cayana pallescens

  eastern Brazil (Piauí, Pernambuco, northern Bahia, and adjacent eastern Goiás)

• Piaya cayana thermophila

  eastern Mexico to eastern Panama and northwestern Colombia and offshore islands