Guira guira
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In 3 days ~10% in a week ~30%
The guira cuckoo, known in Spanish as the pirincho (Guira guira) is a species of gregarious bird found widely in open and semi-open habitats of northeastern, eastern and southern Brazil, Uruguay, Paraguay, Bolivia, and northeastern Argentina. It is the only species placed in the genus Guira.
The guira cuckoo was described and illustrated in 1648 by the German naturalist Georg Marcgrave in his Historia Naturalis Brasiliae. He used the name "Guira angatara". The word gûyrá means "bird" in the Old Tupi language. Later ornithologists based their descriptions on Marcgrave's account: Francis Willughby in 1678, John Ray in 1713, Mathurin Jacques Brisson in 1760, and Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon in 1779. When the German naturalist Johann Friedrich Gmelin revised and expanded Carl Linnaeus's Systema Naturae in 1788 he included the guira cuckoo. He placed it with all the other cuckoos in the genus Cuculus and coined the binomial name Cuculus guira. The guira cuckoo is now the only species placed in the genus Guira that was introduced in 1830 by the French naturalist René Lesson. The species is monotypic: no subspecies are recognised. It is most closely related to the... Wikipedia →
| # | Park | Country | Daily sighting probability |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Iberá National Park | 🇦🇷 Argentina | |
| 2 | Emas National Park | 🇧🇷 Brazil | |
| 3 | El Palmar National Park | 🇦🇷 Argentina | |
| 4 | El Impenetrable National Park | 🇦🇷 Argentina | |
| 5 | Parque Estadual Encontro das Águas | 🇧🇷 Brazil | |
| 6 | Chapada dos Guimarães National Park | 🇧🇷 Brazil | |
| 7 | Serra da Canastra National Park | 🇧🇷 Brazil | |
| 8 | Chapada Diamantina National Park | 🇧🇷 Brazil | |
| 9 | Iguazú National Park | 🇦🇷 Argentina | |
| 10 | Iguaçu National Park | 🇧🇷 Brazil | |
| 11 | Serra dos Órgãos National Park | 🇧🇷 Brazil | |
| 12 | Tijuca National Park | 🇧🇷 Brazil | |
| 13 | Itatiaia National Park | 🇧🇷 Brazil |
| # | City | Country | Daily sighting probability |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | São Luís | 🇧🇷 Brazil | |
| 2 | Santa Cruz de la Sierra | 🇧🇴 Bolivia | |
| 3 | Rosario | 🇦🇷 Argentina | |
| 4 | Asuncion | 🇵🇾 Paraguay | |
| 5 | Porto Alegre | 🇧🇷 Brazil | |
| 6 | Cordoba | 🇦🇷 Argentina | |
| 7 | Recife | 🇧🇷 Brazil | |
| 8 | Maceió | 🇧🇷 Brazil | |
| 9 | Fortaleza | 🇧🇷 Brazil | |
| 10 | Natal | 🇧🇷 Brazil |
Rare
Under 5% of wildlife watchers report a Guira Cuckoo sighting in Rio de Janeiro on a given day, based on 163 verified sightings from GBIF citizen-science data. It is the 102nd most-seen of the 278 birds we can rate there. Over three days the chance rises to about 10%, and over a week to about 30%, if each day is a fresh chance.
October to February
In those months about 10% of wildlife watchers report a Guira Cuckoo in Rio de Janeiro on a given day, against under 5% in March to September, the lowest months. Those are among Rio de Janeiro's wettest months, with about 180 mm of rain a month against 40 mm in August.
Between 2 and 5 pm
Across all the parks we cover, that three-hour window holds the most Guira Cuckoo sightings with a recorded time, and about 9 in 10 of them come between 6 am and 6 pm: it is a daytime animal.
24th of 26
Of the 26 cities where we can rate Guira Cuckoo sightings, Rio de Janeiro ranks 24th at under 5%. The best odds are in São Luís (Brazil, about 50%), Santa Cruz de la Sierra (Bolivia, about 50%) and Rosario (Argentina, about 30%).
Same family: Cuculidae
The closest relatives of the Guira Cuckoo that you can see in Rio de Janeiro (family Cuculidae, Cuckoos) are Squirrel Cuckoo (about 10%) and Smooth-billed Ani (about 10%), with each one's daily chance of a sighting.
GBIF citizen-science records
It is estimated from how often the Guira Cuckoo is recorded against all the birds logged in Rio de Janeiro (163 verified sightings), calibrated against known sighting rates. Figures are rounded to the nearest 10% because citizen-science data supports honest approximations, not decimals, and months with records from fewer than five people show "—". How it works.
