Chestnut-bellied cuckoo

The chestnut-bellied cuckoo (Coccyzus pluvialis) is a species of cuckoo in the family Cuculidae. The monotypic genus Hyetornis was dissolved by the American Ornithologists' Union,[2] but this is not universally accepted. It is endemic to Jamaica. Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist lowland forest and heavily degraded former forest.

Chestnut-bellied cuckoo
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves
Order: Cuculiformes
Family: Cuculidae
Genus: Coccyzus
Species:
C. pluvialis
Binomial name
Coccyzus pluvialis
(Gmelin, 1788)
Synonyms

Hyetornis pluvialis

References

  1. BirdLife International. (2016). Coccyzus pluvialis. The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2016-3.RLTS.T22684350A93027313.en
  2. Archived 2007-12-11 at the Wayback Machine


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