Pheasant Cuckoo

Pheasant Cuckoo
Pheasant Cuckoo
Conservation status
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves
Order: Cuculiformes
Family: Cuculidae
Subfamily: Neomorphinae
Genus: Dromococcyx
Species: D. phasianellus
Binomial name
Dromococcyx phasianellus
(Spix, 1824)

The Pheasant Cuckoo (Dromococcyx phasianellus) is a species of cuckoo in the Cuculidae family. It is found in Argentina, Belize, Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Costa Rica, Ecuador, El Salvador, French Guiana, Guatemala, Guyana, Honduras, Mexico, Nicaragua, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, Suriname, and Venezuela. Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical dry forests, subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests, and subtropical or tropical swamps.

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