Birds of the World

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Genus: Cuculus (11 species)


Common Cuckoo (Cuculus canorus) Range: PAL: widespread England
Photograph by Stephen G. Davis © All Rights Reserved.


Black Cuckoo (Cuculus clamosus clamosus) Range: AF: widespread Bramasole Guest House, South Africa Note white-tipped tail.
Photograph by Bruno Conjeaud © All Rights Reserved.


Black Cuckoo (Cuculus clamosus gabonensis) Range: AF: widespread Murchison Falls National Park, Uganda
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The two subspecies of Black Cuckoo are very different.

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Sulawesi Cuckoo (Cuculus crassirostris) Range: AU: Sulawesi


African Cuckoo (Cuculus gularis) Range: AF: widespread Sakania, Democratic Republic of Congo
Photograph by Nigel Voaden © All Rights Reserved.

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Sunda Cuckoo (Cuculus lepidus) Range: OR: montane Malay Pen., Greater and Lesser Sundas and Seram (ec Moluccas)


Indian Cuckoo (Cuculus micropterus) Immature Range: OR, PAL: widespread India through se, ne Asia to Greater Sundas Bidadari, Singapore
Photograph by Wokoti © All Rights Reserved.


Indian Cuckoo (Cuculus micropterus concretus) Immature Range: OR, PAL: widespread India through se, ne Asia to Greater Sundas Bidadari, Singapore
Photograph by Wokoti © All Rights Reserved.

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Oriental Cuckoo (Cuculus optatus) Range: PAL: w Russia and Kazakhstan through ne Russia to Japan


Lesser Cuckoo (Cuculus poliocephalus) Range: PAL, OR: se Siberia and Japan to s China, n se Asia and the Himalayas Sri Lanka
Photograph by Bob Du © All Rights Reserved.

Comes in grey and rufous morphs.


Madagascar Cuckoo (Cuculus rochii) Range: AF: Madagascar Kirindy Private Reserve, Morondava, Madagascar
Photograph by Allan Hopkins Copyright and usage info This file is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported. In short: you are free to share the file for non-commercial purposes under the conditions that you appropriately attribute it, and that you distribute it only under a license identical to this one. If you remix, transform, or build upon the material, you may not distribute the modified material.


Himalayan Cuckoo (Cuculus saturatus) Range: OR: Himalayas through se Asia to e China and Taiwan
Photograph by Hiyashi Haka (Kevin Lin) Copyright and usage info This file is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported. In short: you are free to share and make derivative works of the file under the conditions that you appropriately attribute it, and that you distribute it only under a license identical to this one.


Red-chested Cuckoo (Cuculus solitarius) Range: AF: widespread Bramasole Guest House, South Africa
Photograph by Bruno Conjeaud © All Rights Reserved.


Red-chested Cuckoo (Cuculus solitarius) Range: AF: widespread Ankasa Conservation Area, Ghana
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