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title: "Gestreepte koekoek"
description: "Tapera naevia — Vogels. The striped cuckoo (Tapera naevia) is a near-passerine bird, the only member of the genus Tapera."
canonical: https://animalchecklist.com/nl/animal/striped-cuckoo
last_updated: 2026-09-20
---

# Gestreepte koekoek

> Tapera naevia — Vogels. The striped cuckoo (Tapera naevia) is a near-passerine bird, the only member of the genus Tapera.

- Scientific name: *Tapera naevia*
- Category: `birds` (Vogels)
- Habitats: unknown
- iNaturalist observations: 1949
- Wikidata: [Q1262847](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1262847)
- iNaturalist taxon: [1989](https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/1989)

## Names

- en: Striped Cuckoo
- de: Streifenkuckuck
- es: Cuclillo rayado
- fr: Géocoucou tacheté
- nl: Gestreepte koekoek
- pt: Saci
- pl: Klinochwostka paskowana

## Countries with the most observations

BR (571), AR (361), CO (201), PA (122), CR (108), EC (92), MX (75), GF (39), PE (35), TT (34), UY (32), HN (29)

## Summary

The striped cuckoo (Tapera naevia) is a near-passerine bird, the only member of the genus Tapera. This resident cuckoo is found from Mexico and Trinidad south to Bolivia and Argentina and Colombia.
The striped cuckoo is found in open country with trees or shrubs, and the edges of mangrove forests. It is among the very few brood parasitic cuckoos of the Americas (only other are Dromococcyx), and typical hosts are 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…

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

## Photo

![Gestreepte koekoek](https://animalchecklist.com/img/animals/striped-cuckoo/medium.jpg)

Photo: Francisco Liguori · CC0 · inaturalist — https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/64302434

## Machine access

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