Order: Cuculiformes | Family: Cuculidae | IUCN Status: Least Concern
Age: Adult | Sex: Unknown | Loc. Amazonian Brazil
Age: Adult | Sex: Unknown | Loc. Eastern Ecuador
Age: Adult & Juvenil | Sex: Unknown | Loc. Eastern Ecuador
Age: Adult | Sex: Unknown | Loc. Amazonian Brazil
Status: The Smooth-billed Ani is common in hedges and open and disturbed areas in Amazonia. It is known to range as high as 2100 m on the east slope of the Andes. It also occurs in Co, Ec, Br, and Bo.
Name in Spanish: Garrapatero de Pico Liso.
Sub-species: Smooth-billed Ani (Crotophaga ani), Linnaeus, 1758.
Meaning of Name: Crotophaga: Gr. Kroton= tick and phagos, phagein= eat. ani: Tupi Indian= ani, angi, anim,= Tupi Indian name used to designate a social bird.
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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.