Great Lizard Cuckoo (Coccyzus merlini)
About the Great Lizard Cuckoo
The great lizard cuckoo (Coccyzus merlini) is a species of bird in the tribe Phaenicophaeini, subfamily Cuculinae of the cuckoo family Cuculidae. It is found in the Bahamas and Cuba. The great lizard cuckoo and three other lizard cuckoos were for a time considered a single species. Individually they were previously placed in genus Saurothera that was later merged into the current Coccyzus, and they are considered a superspecies. The North American Classification Committee of the American Ornithological Society, the International Ornithological Committee, and the Clements taxonomy assign it these four subspecies: C. m. bahamensis (Bryant, H., 1864) C. m. santamariae (Garrido, 1971) C. m. merlini (D'Orbigny, 1839) C. m. decolor (Bangs & Zappey, 1905)
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We only publish recordings we may use commercially, because this site is supported by ads. xeno-canto lists 12 recordings for this species: 8 CC BY-NC-SA · 4 CC BY-NC-ND. None of them permits commercial use, so there is no player here — the page is kept as a profile so the bird is not missing from the guide.
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Listed as recorded in Cuba in the xeno-canto catalogue.
Related species you can hear
- Black-billed CuckooCoccyzus erythropthalmusrecording
- Yellow-billed CuckooCoccyzus americanusrecording
This species has no recording here yet — these relatives do, so you can hear what the family sounds like.