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title: "Guira Cuckoo"
description: "Guira guira — Birds. 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."
canonical: https://animalchecklist.com/animal/guira-cuckoo
last_updated: 2026-09-20
---

# Guira Cuckoo

> Guira guira — Birds. 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.

- Scientific name: *Guira guira*
- Category: `birds` (Birds)
- Habitats: `grassland` (Fields & meadows), `savanna` (Savanna)
- iNaturalist observations: 11730
- Wikidata: [Q911917](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q911917)
- iNaturalist taxon: [1979](https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/1979)

## Names

- en: Guira Cuckoo
- de: Guirakuckuck
- es: Pirincho
- fr: Guira cantara
- nl: Guirakoekoek
- pt: Anu-branco
- pl: Guira

## Countries with the most observations

BR (5715), AR (4602), BO (495), UY (301), PY (140), CL (3)

## Summary

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.

Text: Wikipedia (en), CC BY-SA 4.0 — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guira_cuckoo

## Photo

![Guira Cuckoo](https://animalchecklist.com/img/animals/guira-cuckoo/medium.jpg)

Photo: Fernando Sessegolo · CC0 · inaturalist — https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/37944533

## Machine access

`GET https://animalchecklist.com/api/v1/animals/guira-cuckoo?lang=en` — see [openapi.json](https://animalchecklist.com/openapi.json).