Ani
Related Category: Vertebrate Zoology
(ä´n), bird: see cuckoo.
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Cuckoo - common name for members of the extensive avian family Cuculidae, including the ani and the roadrunner widely distributed in temperate and tropical regions.
Greater Ani (Crotophaga major)
The Greater Ani is distributed from Panama to northern Argentina.
Ani are black grackle sized birds with a large parrot like bill. They are vocal and easy to hear, but they tend to stick to thick vegitation and are often difficult to see.
Groove-billed Ani
Crotophaga sulcirostris
The Groove-billed Ani (Crotophaga sulcirostris) is essentially a species of South and Central America which barely enters the United States in south Texas during spring and summer.
Smooth-billed ani Crotophaga ani
Identification Tips:
Length: 12 inches
Entirely black plumage
Large, heavy bill with hump at base of culmen
Long tail
Sexes similar
Often found in small groups
Inhabits grassy, scrubby areas ...
The Groove-billed Ani is a tropical member of the Cuckoo family, with the northern range only slightly entering the U.S. in southern Texas.
Ani, Smooth-billed Crotophaga ani Found: North America (Florida), Central and South America
Photographed by: 1) Gualberto Becerra in Panama 2, 3) Norman Bateman 4) Dick Daniels in Puerto Rico
Genus Coccyzus ...
Greater Ani - Crotphaga major. 7+, very common in the area.
Squirrel Cuckoo - Piaya cayana. One spotted after the bridge.
Ringed Kingfisher - Ceryle torquata. Fishing along the creek.
Groove-billed Ani Crotophaga sulcirostris. Rare in fall and winter in Gulf Coast region. Found in early successional scrub, pastures, and orchards.
References Cited: ...
Smooth-billed Ani
Time was growing short but birds became few and far between. After their initial dawn chorus, birds in the Blue Mountains quiet down. One must be patient to pick out the good birds.
Groove-billed Ani Crotophaga sulcirostris Swainson
Reports of an ani in Guysborough County in fall 1975 and of another at Debert, Colchester County, on 7-8 December 1980, ...
Groove-billed Ani, Crotophaga sulcirostris
Cabo San Lucas Groove-billed Ani, Crotophaga sulcirostris pallidula - probably invalid; extinct (c.1940)
References ...
Black-billed Cuckoo, Coccyzus erythropthalmus
Yellow-billed Cuckoo, Coccyzus americanus
Mangrove Cuckoo, Coccyzus minor
Greater Roadrunner, Geococcyx californianus
Smooth-billed Ani, Crotophaga ani
Groove-billed Ani, Crotophaga sulcirostris ...
The other cuckoos in Florida are the less common Black-billed Cuckoo, a spring and fall migrant, the secretive Mangrove Cuckoo, a rare species and resident of south-central and south Florida mangrove habitats, the uncommon Smooth-billed Ani, ...
This is the only family that occurs in the southeastern United States.
Species in this family:
Black-billed Cuckoo (Coccyzus erythropthalmus)
Smooth-billed Ani (Crotophaga ani)
Yellow-billed Cuckoo (Coccyzus americanus) ...
Broad-billed Hummingbird (2 photos), Russet-crowned Motmot, (March 2008), Groove-billed Ani, Streak-backed Oriole (April 2008), Blue-crowned Motmot (June 2008) on this page.
Twenty years later re-sults of a national survey were published by Brand (1965), in which 1 808 ani-mals were traced. In a third survey con¬ducted in 1970 (Von Richter, 1971), the numbers had increased to 3 120 Black Wilde¬beest.
In the cloaca was found a solid calculus, half an inch in diameter, of an irregular form, white within, externally pale yellowish-brown, and marked with grooves impressed by the action of the sphincter ani.
The third or outermost chamber, the proctodaeum, is closed externally by the sphincter ani; the orifice is quite circular. It lodges the copulatory organ, and on its dorsal wall lies the bursa Fabricii, an organ peculiar to birds.
 See also: Cuckoo, Smooth-billed Ani, Swallow, Purple, Ibis
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