Smooth-billed Ani
Crotophaga ani
- Class
- Bird
- Rarity
- Common
- Observations
- 10,976
- Most observed in
- 🇧🇷 Brazil
- Conservation
- Least Concern
Description
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.
Summary adapted from the Wikipedia article “Smooth-billed ani”.