White-crowned cuckoo

White-crowned cuckoo
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves
Order: Cuculiformes
Family: Cuculidae
Genus: Cacomantis
Cabanis & Heine, 1863
Species: C. leucolophus
Binomial name
Cacomantis leucolophus
(Müller, 1840)
Synonyms

Caliechthrus leucolophus

The white-crowned cuckoo or white-crowned koel (Cacomantis leucolophus) is a species of cuckoo in the Cuculidae family. It was formerly placed in the monotypic genus Caliechthrus but it has a similar song to cuckoos of the genus Cacomantis and is genetically similar to the pallid cuckoo (Cacomantis pallidus), so most taxonomists place it there.[1] It is found in Indonesia and Papua New Guinea, occurring on New Guinea and neighbouring Salawati Island.

References

  1. Payne, Robert B. (2005) The Cuckoos, Oxford University Press.

2006 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Downloaded on 24 July 2007.

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