The banded ground cuckoo is found in the Chocó of western Colombia and Ecuador. The bird is comparatively bigger, with their larger crests and long tails. Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist lowland forest and subtropical or tropical moist montane forest. The banded ground cuckoo is considered to be one of the rarest birds and is constantly threatened by extinction due to habitat loss, specifically the widespread deforestation in both genus of the Banded Ground-Cuckoo includes five species and four of them are found in the Amazon Basin, and the fifth one ranges throughout Central America. Nesting : Banded Ground-Cuckoo birds build their nests entirely out of leaves, about 5 meters off the ground on understory trees, and lay a single nestling. That single egg they lay is more of a rounded shape, rather than an oval shape like any other fundamental bird egg, and goes from being a white cream color to an egg with a variety of brown spots during their incubation proceed
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