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Piaya cayana · Family Cuculidae
Piaya cayana
Family Cuculidae
- Order
- Cuculiformes
- Family
- Cuculidae
- GBIF occurrence records
- 751,658
- Countries and territories with records
- 26
About this species
This species has 751,658 occurrence records from 26 countries and territories (GBIF, 21 October 2026). Most records come from Costa Rica (18.9%), Colombia (16.2%), Brazil (15.9%), Mexico (10.9%) and Ecuador (6.5%); together they account for 68.5% of the total. In Costa Rica, this species accounts for 0.55% of all bird records in GBIF.
The scientific name Piaya cayana combines the genus name Piaya with the species epithet cayana. The Warbla app catalog lists one other species of the genus Piaya: Piaya melanogaster.
The catalog has GBIF record counts for 144 species of the family Cuculidae. This species ranks 5th among them; the family’s most-recorded species is Cuculus canorus. Its record count is 8.3 times the family average (90,374). The family Cuculidae belongs to the order Cuculiformes, which has 146 species in the Warbla app catalog.