Chestnut-bellied Cuckoo

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

The Chestnut-bellied Cuckoo (Coccyzus pluvialis) is a species of cuckoo in the Cuculidae family. It used to be monotypic within the genus Hyetornis, but this genus was dissolved by the American Ornithologists' Union [1]. It is found in Cayman Islands and Jamaica. Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests and heavily degraded former forest.

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