Lesser Ground-cuckoo

Lesser Ground-cuckoo

Taxobox
name = Lesser Ground-cuckoo



status = LC | status_system = IUCN3.1
regnum = Animalia
phylum = Chordata
classis = Aves
ordo = Cuculiformes
familia = Cuculidae
genus = "Morococcyx"
species = "M. erythropygus"
binomial = "Morococcyx erythropygus"
binomial_authority = (Lesson, 1842)

The Lesser Ground-cuckoo ("Morococcyx erythropygus") is a species of cuckoo in the Cuculidae family. It is monotypic within the genus "Morococcyx".It is found in Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico, and Nicaragua.Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical dry forests, subtropical or tropical dry shrubland, and heavily degraded former forest.

ource

* BirdLife International 2004. [http://www.iucnredlist.org/search/details.php/47895/all Morococcyx erythropygus] . [http://www.iucnredlist.org 2006 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. ] Downloaded on 24 July 2007.


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