The dwarf cuckoo (''Coccycua pumila'') is a tropical American bird species of the cuckoo family (Cuculidae). It was formerly placed in the genus '' Coccyzus'' or ''Micrococcyx''. Following the discovery that it belongs to a distinct lineage around the little cuckoo, the genus ''Coccycua'' has been reinstated for these. It is found in Brazil,

Colombia Colombia (, ; ), officially the Republic of Colombia, is a country in South America with insular regions in North America—near Nicaragua's Caribbean coast—as well as in the Pacific Ocean. The Colombian mainland is bordered by the Car ...

, Panama, and Venezuela. Its natural habitats are

subtropical or tropical dry forest The tropical and subtropical dry broadleaf forest is a habitat type defined by the World Wide Fund for Nature and is located at tropical and subtropical latitudes. Though these forests occur in climates that are warm year-round, and may receive ...

subtropical or tropical moist lowland forest Tropical and subtropical moist broadleaf forests (TSMF), also known as tropical moist forest, is a subtropical and tropical forest habitat type defined by the World Wide Fund for Nature. Description TSMF is generally found in large, discont ...

, and heavily degraded former forest.

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