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title: "Kleszczojad gładkodzioby"
description: "Crotophaga ani — Ptaki. The smooth-billed ani (Crotophaga ani) is a bird in the cuckoo family."
canonical: https://animalchecklist.com/pl/animal/smooth-billed-ani
last_updated: 2026-09-20
---

# Kleszczojad gładkodzioby

> Crotophaga ani — Ptaki. The smooth-billed ani (Crotophaga ani) is a bird in the cuckoo family.

- Scientific name: *Crotophaga ani*
- Category: `birds` (Ptaki)
- Habitats: unknown
- iNaturalist observations: 18268
- Wikidata: [Q256046](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q256046)
- iNaturalist taxon: [1971](https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/1971)

## Names

- en: Smooth-billed Ani
- de: Glattschnabelani
- es: Garrapatero pico liso
- fr: Ani à bec lisse
- nl: Kleine ani
- pt: Anu-preto
- pl: Kleszczojad gładkodzioby

## Countries with the most observations

BR (5804), CO (2590), EC (1955), AR (869), PA (717), BO (650), PR (562), PE (486), DO (316), US (302), CR (300), TT (295)

## Summary

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.

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

## Photo

![Kleszczojad gładkodzioby](https://animalchecklist.com/img/animals/smooth-billed-ani/medium.jpg)

Photo: Manuel Ortiz · CC0 · inaturalist — https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/34361846

## Machine access

`GET https://animalchecklist.com/api/v1/animals/smooth-billed-ani?lang=pl` — see [openapi.json](https://animalchecklist.com/openapi.json).