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Smooth-billed Ani (Crotophaga ani)

Smooth-billed Ani
Photo: Charles J. Sharp via Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0 — free for commercial reuse.

About the Smooth-billed Ani

The smooth-billed ani (Crotophaga ani) is a bird in the cuckoo family. It is a resident breeding species from southern Florida, the Caribbean, parts of Central America, south to western Ecuador, Brazil, northern Argentina and southern Chile. It was introduced to Galápagos around the 1960s and is potentially impacting native and endemic species across the archipelago.

Source: Smooth-billed ani on Wikipedia, CC BY-SA

A real field recording of the Smooth-billed Ani. Press play and focus on the rhythm and pitch of each phrase.

Listen

Our streaming copies are mirrored from the original xeno-canto file and transcoded to 96 kbps mono — a modification, so we note it here; the licence for each recording is named in its credit below.

Song (0:12) via xeno-canto.org/912265, licensed CC BY — free for commercial use.

1 recording on this page · licensed CC BY ×1 · mirrored on this server, free for commercial reuse · recorded in Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Cuba, Ecuador and elsewhere · xeno-canto lists 332 recordings for this species in total.

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