Order: Cuculiformes | Family: Cuculidae | IUCN Status: Least Concern
Age: Adult | Sex: Unknown \ Loc. Panama
Age: Adult | Sex: Unknown \ Loc. Panama
Age: Adult | Sex: Unknown \ Loc. Panama
Age: Adult | Sex: Unknown \ Loc. Panama
Status: The Rufous-vented Ground-Cuckoo is rare in the Amazonian lowlands where it occurs in two disjunct populations in extreme northeast Peru and central and southeast Peru. The population of southern Peru ranges to elevations of up to 1600 m along the foothill of the Andes. It also occurs in Co, Ec, Br, and Bo.
Name in Spanish: Cuco-Terrestre de Vientre Rufo.
Sub-species: Rufous-vented Ground-Cuckoo (Neomorphus geoffroyi aequatorialis) Chapman, 1923. S Colombia (W Caquetá) S to E Ecuador and N Peru (NW Loreto).
(N. g. australis), Carriker, 1935. SE Peru and NW Bolivia (La Paz).
Meaning of Name: Neomorphus: L. neo = new, different; and morphus = shape, appearance. geoffroyi: in honor of French zoologist, Étienne Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire (1772 to 1844).
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- Species range based on: Schulenberg, T. S., D. F. Stotz, and L. Rico. 2006. Distribution maps of the birds of Peru, version 1.0. Environment, Culture & Conservation (ECCo). The Field Museum. http://fm2.fieldmuseum.org/uw_test/birdsofperu on 08/01/2015.