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Morococcyx erythropygus
I heard a different sound (song) and found this beautiful bird in the tall bushes at the end of the Vegetables Garden, it walked for a bit in the ground, it looked like a cat walking, very slow, like when a cat is hunting, went back up and kept on singing the mating call. Yesterday there was a reply by another of it's kind, but not today!
Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical dry forests, subtropical or tropical dry shrubland, and heavily degraded former forest. Found at 900 meter above sea level in what I suppose you could call degraded former forest.
The Lesser Ground Cuckoo (Morococcyx erythropygus) is a species of cuckoo in the monotypic genus Morococcyx in the family Cuculidae. It is found in Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico, and Nicaragua.
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Thank you, Tom15.
Thank you, Maria dB.
Wow! Nice bird.
Wonderful series!