Squirrel Cuckoo
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Squirrel Cuckoo

Piaya cayana

Overview

Arenal, Osa Peninsula, and Corcovado are among the five atlas places where the Squirrel Cuckoo, Piaya cayana, is recorded. Its records gather most thickly in the countries of Costa Rica, Colombia, Panama, Brazil, and Belize. The atlas holds about 383,000 open records of this bird from 17 countries, and its map shows where these records concentrate.

Seasons differ by region, and each place page shows the months recorded there in the atlas.

Records
383,376
Countries
17
Atlas places
5
Recorded in and around these atlas places

These are open occurrence records, so they show where people looked for and recorded the Squirrel Cuckoo as much as where it lives. The atlas keeps a species' 200 best-recorded grid cells, so the map shows where records concentrate rather than its whole range. Cells are up to 25 km across, and every location is generalised to its cell.

Where you'll find them

Generalised encounter areas, not exact locations. Each shape is a grid cell coloured by how likely the species is there.

  • Costa Rica
    25 km zone · high confidence · 112788 records · updated 40 days ago
    Very likely
  • Colombia
    25 km zone · high confidence · 56038 records · updated 40 days ago
    Very likely
  • Panama
    25 km zone · high confidence · 35187 records · updated 40 days ago
    Very likely
  • Mexico
    25 km zone · high confidence · 30868 records · updated 40 days ago
    Very likely
  • Brazil
    25 km zone · high confidence · 29534 records · updated 40 days ago
    Very likely
  • Ecuador
    25 km zone · high confidence · 27434 records · updated 40 days ago
    Very likely
  • Belize
    25 km zone · high confidence · 26967 records · updated 40 days ago
    Very likely
  • Guatemala
    25 km zone · high confidence · 20821 records · updated 40 days ago
    Very likely
  • Peru
    25 km zone · high confidence · 9482 records · updated 40 days ago
    Very likely
  • Honduras
    25 km zone · high confidence · 8690 records · updated 40 days ago
    Very likely

Conservation status not assessed here yet, so every location is generalised to its grid cell.

Photographs
1 of Squirrel Cuckoo