The Striped Cuckoo eats large insects, often taken off the ground.

The Striped Cuckoo is found in open country with trees or shrubs, and the edges of mangrove forests.

They have strikingly graduated tails, and are among the few cuckoos of the Americas that are brood parasites (only other is the Striped Cuckoo).

The Striped Cuckoo (Tapera naevia) is a near-passerine bird, the only member of the genus Tapera.

Young great spotted cuckoos reared by pied crows, and striped cuckoos reared by arrow-marked babblers, are both known to give begging calls identical to those of the host young.

This spinetail is parasitised by the Striped Cuckoo (Tapera naevia), which lays one or two eggs in the nest, but it is not known how the cuckoo enters the nest or whether it or its offspring eject the host's young.

The Striped Cuckoo (Tapera naevia) is a near-passerine bird, the only member of the genus Tapera.