The Nature LibraryEN·ES
iNat·1758SpeciesAves16,494 field observations
  1. Animals
  2. ›Chordates
  3. ›Vertebrates
  4. ›Birds
  5. ›Cuckoos
  6. ›Cuckoos
  7. ›Typical Cuckoos, Malkohas, and allies
  8. ›Piaya
Common Squirrel-Cuckoo
Plate 1 of 8. (c) Roberto González, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC), uploaded by Roberto González · via iNaturalist

On eBird ↗

Common Squirrel-Cuckoo

Live sightings near you, the range map, bar charts of when it is seen, and Macaulay Library photos and recordings.

Common Squirrel-Cuckoo

Piaya cayana

The squirrel cuckoo (Piaya cayana) is a large and active species of cuckoo found in wooded habitats from northwestern Mexico to northern Argentina and Uruguay, and on Trinidad. Some authorities have split off the western Mexican form as the Mexican squirrel-cuckoo (Piaya mexicana).

Continue reading on Wikipedia
§·

Listen

Looking for field recordings…

§·

Where it lives

Recorded sightings

—

geo-referenced records in GBIF, from museums, herbaria and field observers.

Drag the globe to turn it. Dots are where records exist, not a range map; darker means more records.

§·

In the stacks

Searching the stacks…

Every page naming Piaya cayana in the Biodiversity Heritage Library →

This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 1758.