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Mexican/Common Squirrel Cuckoo

Piaya [cayana or mexicana] (= Piaya cayana) (Linnaeus, C 1766)

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Partial list of sound recordings available from xeno-canto & macaulaylibrary.org.
Species name Recordist Date Location Remarks Cat.nr.
Squirrel Cuckoo - Piaya cayana Bernabe Lopez-Lanus 10-07-05 Acambuco, Salta, Argentina (Argentina) (? m) song (A) - From Birds Sounds of Southern South America by Lopez-Lanus (2008) 50844
xeno-canto.org
Squirrel Cuckoo - Piaya cayana Eric DeFonso 2011-06-23 Manu Learning Center, Madre de Dios, Madre de Dios (Peru) (500 m) call -

Continuous braying between a pair of birds. Habitat is advanced secondary forest.

bird-seen:yes

playback-used:no

 123090
xeno-canto.org
Squirrel Cuckoo - Piaya cayana Johan Chaves 2019-07-08 Reserva El Copal, Cartago, Cartago (Costa Rica) (1000 m) call -

bird-seen:yes

playback-used:no

 486636
xeno-canto.org
Squirrel Cuckoo - Piaya cayana JAYRSON ARAUJO DE OLIVEIRA 2017-07-24 Estacao Veracel, Bahia, Bahia (Brazil) (70 m) song -

bird-seen:no

playback-used:no

 401255
xeno-canto.org
Squirrel Cuckoo - Piaya cayana Yaudimar Bermúdez 2024-06-15 , Falcón (Venezuela)   -   630789040
macaulaylibrary.org
Squirrel Cuckoo - Piaya cayana Pedro Rinaldi 2014-09-11 Costanera norte, n.a151 (Uruguay) (20 m) subsong - [sono] 965503
xeno-canto.org
Squirrel Cuckoo - Piaya cayana Rosa Letícia Pinto 2025-05-12 , Silveiras (Brazil)   -   639644365
macaulaylibrary.org
Squirrel Cuckoo - Piaya cayana Paul Driver 2023-04-21 Pooks Hill Lodge (near Springfield), Cayo District, Cayo (Belize) (90 m) call - [sono] 798105
xeno-canto.org
Squirrel Cuckoo - Piaya cayana Pedro Rinaldi 2014-09-11 Costanera norte, n.a151 (Uruguay) (20 m) song - [sono] 962787
xeno-canto.org
Squirrel Cuckoo - Piaya cayana Manuel Grosselet 2024-05-28 Montealbán, Santa María Atzompa, Oaxaca, Centro (Mexico) (1900 m) song - [also] [sono] 907539
xeno-canto.org
Squirrel Cuckoo - Piaya cayana macroura Franco Vushurovich 2022-12-09 Parque Nacional Iguazú: Ruta 101, Iguazú (Argentina) (220 m) song -

Vocalización espontanea.

Spontaneous singing.

 795569
xeno-canto.org
Squirrel Cuckoo - Piaya cayana JAYRSON ARAUJO DE OLIVEIRA 2025-02-28 Sinop, MT 423 Rio de Maria, Mato Grosso, Sinop (Brazil) (360 m) call, duet - [also] [sono] 978451
xeno-canto.org
Squirrel Cuckoo - Piaya cayana JAYRSON ARAUJO DE OLIVEIRA 2023-10-21 Fazenda São Miguel, Itajá, Goiás, Itajá (Brazil) (550 m) call, song - [also] [sono] 838543
xeno-canto.org
Squirrel Cuckoo - Piaya cayana Douglas Meyer 2015-08-17 Doutor Pedrinho, Doutor Pedrinho, Santa Catarina, Santa Catarina (Brazil) (500 m) call -

bird-seen:yes

playback-used:no

 294719
xeno-canto.org
Squirrel Cuckoo - Piaya cayana Richard E. Webster 2021-11-24 Refugio Volcanes, Samaipata, Florida, Santa Cruz Department, Florida (Bolivia) (1000 m) adult, male, song -

not seen; singing from the forest canopy;

bird-seen:no

playback-used:no

 703300
xeno-canto.org
Squirrel Cuckoo - Piaya cayana Alfonso Auerbach 2018-04-21 Vieja Carretera a Támara , Departamento de Francisco Morazán, Francisco Morazán (Honduras) (1500 m) call, song -

bird-seen:yes

playback-used:no

 411740
xeno-canto.org
Squirrel Cuckoo - Piaya cayana mesura John V. Moore 1996-11-00 Napo: 'Cabañas San Isidro', 1-2 km SW Cosanga, Napo (Ecuador) (2000 m) calls -

Moore et al. 2013: Bird Sounds of Ecuador DVD Looped once

playback-used:no

 257709
xeno-canto.org
Squirrel Cuckoo - Piaya cayana Sandra Rairán 2018-09-23 Reserva de Castilla - (5,069, -75,504), Caldas, Colombia, Caldas (Colombia)   -   115977521
macaulaylibrary.org
Squirrel Cuckoo - Piaya cayana Carlos Gonzalez 2022-10-23 , Alamos (Mexico)   -   502242761
macaulaylibrary.org
Squirrel Cuckoo - Piaya cayana Geoff Carpentier 2024-03-30 , Atlántida (Honduras)   -   639759642
macaulaylibrary.org
Squirrel Cuckoo - Piaya cayana Alain Malengreau 2022-11-06 Montsinery-Tonnegrande, Arrondissement of Cayenne, Roura (French Guiana) (20 m) call -

Mixpre 3 + BP4025. +12dB

 772596
xeno-canto.org
Squirrel Cuckoo - Piaya cayana Alejandro Salinas 2014-02-17 Estacion biologica de Chamela, Jalisco, Jalisco (Mexico) (60 m) call -

It was seen with another conspecific foraging in a subdeciduous forest

bird-seen:yes

playback-used:no

 167677
xeno-canto.org
Squirrel Cuckoo - Piaya cayana JAYRSON ARAUJO DE OLIVEIRA 2019-09-24 Setor Samambaia, mata seca, perto da UFG-Agronomia, Goiânia-Goiás, Goiás (Brazil) (750 m) song -

Canto gravado nas margens do rio Meia Ponte.

bird-seen:no

playback-used:no

 500052
xeno-canto.org
Squirrel Cuckoo - Piaya cayana nigricrissa Nick Athanas 17/12/2002 Tandayapa Bird Lodge, Tandayapa Valley, Pichincha, Pichincha & Santo Domingo de los Tsáchilas (Ecuador) (1770 m) flight call (A) -   11361
xeno-canto.org
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