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 Smooth-billed Ani

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Alternate name
Crotophaga ani  Scientific name 
Cuculiformes Order
Crotophagidae Family   
33cm               Length
Semi-open country, farmland, in:- Argentina, Belize, Bolivia, Brazil, [Caribbean and West Indes:- Range,] Colombia, [Costa Rica:- Cosos Island Costa Rica,] [Ecuador:- Galapagos], French Guiana, Guyana, Honduras, [Mexico:- Yucatán Peninsula,] Nicaragua, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, Suriname, Uruguay, [USA:- Range,] & Venezuela. Habitat Range
9 to 29 eggs have been found in a single nest, laid by members of the group.   Clutch  
Mainly insects small lizards. Food 
They sometimes remove ticks from grazing animals. Habits
1318 World Number

                        

Status

Photo by Arthur Grosset © all rights reserved

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Smooth-billed Ani call
(Crotophaga ani)
Nathan Pieplow XC11656
30-12-2006, Venezuela

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Caribbean and West Indes:-

Anguilla, Bahamas, Cayman Islands, Cuba, Dominica, Dominican Republic, Grenada, Guadeloupe, Haiti, Isla Margarita, Jamaica, Leeward Islands, Lesser Antilles, Martinique, [Mexico:-Yucatán Peninsula], Montserrat, Navassa, Netherlands Antilles, Providencia, Puerto Rico, Saba, Saint Lucia, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, San Andrés Island, Sint-Eustatius, Trinidad and Tobago, Turks and Caicos Islands, Virgin Islands, US Virgin Islands, Windward Islands.

USA:-

Florida, Georgia, Ohio, New Jersey, North Carolina, South Carolina,

 

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