Cuculidae

Coua caerulea (Linnaeus, 1766)

Coua caerulea, the blue coua, is a common blue cuckoo bird found across forests in Madagascar.

Coua cursor A.Grandidier, 1867

Coua cursor is a non-threatened terrestrial bird endemic to southern and southwestern Madagascar.

Coua gigas (Boddaert, 1783)

Coua gigas, the giant coua, is a cuckoo species native to western and southern Madagascar, currently listed as least concern by the IUCN.

Coua ruficeps olivaceiceps (Sharpe, 1873)

Red-capped coua (Coua ruficeps) is a cuckoo endemic to northwest Madagascar; its former subspecies olive-capped coua is now a full species.

Chrysococcyx xanthorhynchus (Horsfield, 1821)

Chrysococcyx xanthorhynchus, the violet cuckoo, is an Asian cuckoo with distinct plumage for each sex and age class.

Chrysococcyx maculatus (Gmelin, 1788)

Chrysococcyx maculatus, the Asian emerald cuckoo, is a small brood parasitic cuckoo found across South and East Asia.

Chrysococcyx klaas (Stephens, 1815)

Klaas's cuckoo (Chrysococcyx klaas) is a small, sexually dimorphic cuckoo found across most of sub-Saharan Africa.

Chrysococcyx cupreus (Shaw, 1792)

Chrysococcyx cupreus, the African emerald cuckoo, is a sexually dimorphic cuckoo found across most of sub-Saharan Africa.

Chrysococcyx caprius (Boddaert, 1783)

The diederik cuckoo (Chrysococcyx caprius) is a small migratory cuckoo native to Sub-Saharan Africa and the southern Arabian Peninsula.

Piaya cayana (Linnaeus, 1766)

Piaya cayana, the squirrel cuckoo, is a large long-tailed Neotropical cuckoo common across most of its range.

Piaya melanogaster (Vieillot, 1817)

Piaya melanogaster, the black-bellied cuckoo, is an Amazonian resident cuckoo with little-studied reproduction.

Clamator glandarius (Linnaeus, 1758)

Clamator glandarius, the great spotted cuckoo, is a brood parasitic bird with distinct plumage and specific habitat preferences.

Clamator coromandus (Linnaeus, 1766)

Clamator coromandus is a crested cuckoo distributed across the Himalayas and Southeast Asia, with partially migratory populations.

Clamator jacobinus (Boddaert, 1783)

Clamator jacobinus, the Jacobin cuckoo, is a medium-sized brood parasitic crested cuckoo found across parts of Africa and South Asia.

Clamator levaillantii (Swainson, 1829)

Clamator levaillantii, Levaillant's cuckoo, is a 37.5 cm long cuckoo with two colour morphs and distinctive calls.

Cacomantis sonneratii (Latham, 1790)

Cacomantis sonneratii is a 22 cm brood-parasitic cuckoo that feeds primarily on insects.

Cacomantis variolosus (Vigors & Horsfield, 1827)

Cacomantis variolosus, the Sahul brush cuckoo, is a polymorphic brood parasitic cuckoo found across Australia, Southeast Asia and Melanesia.

Cacomantis flabelliformis (Latham, 1802)

Cacomantis flabelliformis, the fan-tailed cuckoo, is a medium-sized Australian cuckoo found in a range of forest and cultivated habitats.

Cacomantis merulinus (Scopoli, 1786)

Cacomantis merulinus, the plaintive cuckoo, is a small brood parasitic cuckoo with four recognized subspecies across Asia.

Cacomantis passerinus (Vahl, 1797)

Cacomantis passerinus, the grey-bellied cuckoo, is a small brood-parasitic cuckoo native to tropical southern Asia.

Cacomantis variolosus sepulcralis (S.Muller, 1843)

This is a description of the Sahul brush cuckoo, covering its appearance, distribution, habitat, and brood parasitic ecology.

Eudynamys orientalis (Latham, 1801)

Eudynamys orientalis, the Pacific Koel, is a sexually dimorphic cuckoo found across parts of Wallacea, Melanesia and Australia.

Eudynamys scolopaceus (Linnaeus, 1758)

Eudynamys scolopaceus, the Asian koel, is a large parasitic cuckoo native to South and Southeast Asia, with distinctive sex-specific plumage.

Cuculus saturatus Blyth, 1843

Cuculus saturatus, the Himalayan cuckoo, is a brood parasitic cuculid bird that breeds across central-east Asia and winters in southeast Asia and Australia.