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Piaya cayana (Squirrel Cuckoo)

Synonyms: Cuculus cayanus
Language: Spanish

Wikipedia Abstract

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).
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Infraspecies

Piaya cayana cabanisi
Piaya cayana cayana
Piaya cayana circe
Piaya cayana hellmayri
Piaya cayana insulana
Piaya cayana macroura
Piaya cayana mehleri
Piaya cayana mesura
Piaya cayana mexicana (Mexican Squirrel-cuckoo)
Piaya cayana mogenseni
Piaya cayana nigricrissa
Piaya cayana obscura
Piaya cayana pallescens
Piaya cayana thermophila

EDGE Analysis

Uniqueness Scale: Similiar (0) 
5
 Unique (100)
Uniqueness & Vulnerability Scale: Similiar & Secure (0) 
27
 Unique & Vulnerable (100)
ED Score: 11.5422
EDGE Score: 2.5291
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Attributes

Adult Weight [1]  102 grams
Breeding Habitat [2]  Tropical evergreen forests, Tropical dry forests
Wintering Geography [2]  Non-migrartory
Wintering Habitat [2]  Tropical evergreen forests, Tropical dry forests
Diet [3]  Carnivore (Invertebrates)
Diet - Invertibrates [3]  100 %
Forages - Canopy [3]  80 %
Forages - Mid-High [3]  20 %
Clutch Size [5]  2
Incubation [4]  18 days

Ecoregions

Protected Areas

Biodiversity Hotspots

Prey / Diet

Prey / Diet Overlap

Competing SpeciesCommon Prey Count
Atelocynus microtis (Short-eared Dog)1
Choloepus hoffmanni (Hoffmann's Two-toed Sloth)1
Crotophaga ani (Smooth-billed Ani)1
Turdus jamaicensis (White-eyed Thrush)1

Predators

Accipiter bicolor (Bicolored Hawk)[4]
Leucopternis polionotus (Mantled hawk)[4]

Consumers

Parasitized by 
Cyrnea semilunaris <Unverified Name>[8]
Paruterina similita <Unverified Name>[8]

Range Map

External References

Citations

Attributes / relations provided by
♦ 1Nathan P. Myhrvold, Elita Baldridge, Benjamin Chan, Dhileep Sivam, Daniel L. Freeman, and S. K. Morgan Ernest. 2015. An amniote life-history database to perform comparative analyses with birds, mammals, and reptiles. Ecology 96:3109
♦ 2Partners in Flight Avian Conservation Assessment Database, version 2017. Accessed on January 2018.
♦ 3Hamish Wilman, Jonathan Belmaker, Jennifer Simpson, Carolina de la Rosa, Marcelo M. Rivadeneira, and Walter Jetz. 2014. EltonTraits 1.0: Species-level foraging attributes of the world's birds and mammals. Ecology 95:2027
♦ 4del Hoyo, J., Elliott, A., Sargatal, J., Christie, D.A. & de Juana, E. (eds.). Handbook of the Birds of the World Alive. Lynx Edicions, Barcelona.
♦ 5Jetz W, Sekercioglu CH, Böhning-Gaese K (2008) The Worldwide Variation in Avian Clutch Size across Species and Space PLoS Biol 6(12): e303. doi:10.1371/journal.pbio.0060303
♦ 6Repenning, M., Basso, H. C. D. P., Rossoni, J. R., Krügel, M. M., & Fontana, C. S. (2009). Fontana. Análise comparativa da dieta de quatro espécies de cucos (Aves: Cuculidae), no sul do Brasil. Zoologia, 26(3).
♦ 7Anurans as prey: an exploratory analysis and size relationships between predators and their prey, L. F. Toledo, R. S. Ribeiro & C. F. B. Haddad, Journal of Zoology 271 (2007) 170–177
♦ 8Gibson, D. I., Bray, R. A., & Harris, E. A. (Compilers) (2005). Host-Parasite Database of the Natural History Museum, London
Ecoregions provided by World Wide Fund For Nature (WWF). WildFinder: Online database of species distributions, ver. 01.06 Wildfinder Database
Biodiversity Hotspots provided by Critical Ecosystem Partnership Fund
Abstract provided by DBpedia licensed under a Creative Commons License
Species taxanomy provided by GBIF Secretariat (2022). GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei accessed via GBIF.org on 2023-06-13; License: CC BY 4.0