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Groove-billed ani

Crotophaga sulcirostris · Family Cuculidae

Crotophaga sulcirostris

Family Cuculidae

Order
Cuculiformes
Family
Cuculidae
GBIF occurrence records
534,347
Countries and territories with records
26
Groove-billed ani
Charles J. Sharp · Groove-billed ani (Crotophaga sulcirostris) Cayo.jpg · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Charles J. Sharp · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons · Recordings may be trimmed and re-encoded; photos are cropped and resized.
Play song · Niels Krabbe · Crotophaga_sulcirostris_-_Groove-billed_Ani_XC250727.mp3 · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Niels Krabbe · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons · Recordings may be trimmed and re-encoded; photos are cropped and resized.

About this species

This species has 534,347 occurrence records from 26 countries and territories (GBIF, 21 October 2026). Most records come from Mexico (27.7%), Costa Rica (22.9%), Belize (9.5%), Honduras (6.9%) and the United States (6.4%); together they account for 73.4% of the total. In Mexico, this species accounts for 0.61% of all bird records in GBIF.

The scientific name Crotophaga sulcirostris combines the genus name Crotophaga with the species epithet sulcirostris. The Warbla app catalog lists 3 species of the genus Crotophaga; apart from this one, those with the most GBIF records are Crotophaga ani and Crotophaga major.

The catalog has GBIF record counts for 144 species of the family Cuculidae. This species ranks 8th among them; the family’s most-recorded species is Cuculus canorus. Its record count is 5.9 times the family average (90,374). The family Cuculidae belongs to the order Cuculiformes, which has 146 species in the Warbla app catalog.

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