Striped Cuckoo

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. The Striped Cuckoo, Tapera naevia, is a near-passerine bird, the only member of the genus Tapera (Thunberg, 1819). This cuckoo is a resident breeding bird from Mexico and Trinidad south to Bolivia and Argentina.The Striped Cuckoo is found in open country with trees or shrubs, and the edges of mangrove forests. This species is a brood parasite usually on spinetails, but often also wrens, and other species with domed nests. The female cuckoo lays one, sometimes two, white or bluish eggs in the host's large stick nest. The eggs hatch in 15 days, with a further 18 days until the cuckoo fledges. The young spinetails disappear.