squirrel cuckoo Piaya cayana

These tend to sit in the undergrowth and we could observe a female bringing in food for her young. Yes they have nested twice here in the garden now.
this is a fairly large cuckoo with a quite distinctive call.

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Ferdy Christant

Lion

I'm jealous of your garden! Posted 9 years ago
1. Annette Flottwell
  
  Lion
  
  Come for a visit :) there are 2 hectars, 1 serves for a horse that isn't ours but she produces free fertilizer:) The rest serves for food and pleasure, about 300m2 are jungle.
  Unfortunately there are also downsides..hard to grow anything useful here, we struggle getting decent tomatoes, carrots, even capsicums struggle. we just can't get a lot of things to grow at all. And I have a ZERO poison policy so it is a steep learning curve. Just like building up a business here.
  That is thanks to poor soil left by the precious owners, leafcutters, parrots , wasps that drill holes in tomatillos or capsicums or tomatos and piapias that have most of the papayas.
  But honestly, so far I am not giving in, I want it to work. And I am glad there are already more species than in the beginning. Posted 9 years ago
2. 1. Ferdy Christant
    
    Lion
    
    How wonderful that have your own little piece (or large piece) of sustainable, quite an interesting experiment. And thanks for the invite, it is halfway across the world for me, but you never know :) Posted 9 years ago

The Squirrel Cuckoo

The squirrel cuckoo 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.

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Similar species: Cuckoos

Species identified by Annette Flottwell