French: Tacco de Porto Rico German: Puerto-Rico-Kuckuck Spanish: Cuco lagartero puertorriqueño
Puerto Rico; formerly also on nearby Vieques I#R.
42 cm; 80 g. Adult washed rufous above, primaries same colour as back, tail long with broad white tips, throat white, breast grey, belly rufous; bare skin around eye red,... read more
As congeners, an emphatic “ka-ka-ka-ka...” gradually accelerating and becoming louder, also soft... read more
Tropical deciduous forest, tropical lowland evergreen forest; woodland, coffee plantations, brush-... read more
Food and feeding
Small lizards, large spiders, large insects (stick insects). Forages in middle storey and canopy. Often lifts bits of loose bark off trees... read more
Breeding records in Apr, May, Sept, Nov and Dec. Nest a loose platform of sticks and leaves. Eggs 2–3, pale blue with a thin white... read more
Status and conservation
Not globally threatened. Very limited range, within which species appears to be generally common to fairly common, but locally rare, in wooded areas.
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