Description:
Considered a Threatened Species The rainforest runner is a large (48 cm) member of the Cuckoo family, it has a bushy -creste, long tail and neck, the adults are brown, glossed with green on the wings and purple in the tail, and curved beak.
Some few year ago we did not have reports of this bird in Costa Rica.we now know we have them back, and specialist have report it in some few areas, a week ago 4 individuals were seen on Pocosol, at the Children s Eternal Rainforest Reserve, now the mecca of all of us in Costa Rica. This bird as well as antbirds usually follows swarms of army ants for hunting all kind of small creatures like insect, spiders, small lizards even snakes,that try to escape from the ants. The cuckoo is one of the birds on top of the hunting hierarchy.