Black-billed Koel

Black-billed Koel
Conservation status
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves
Order: Cuculiformes
Family: Cuculidae
Genus: Eudynamys
Species: E. melanorhynchus
Binomial name
Eudynamys melanorhynchus
S. Müller, 1843
Synonyms

Eudynamys melanorhyncha

The Black-billed Koel (Eudynamys melanorhynchus) is a species of cuckoo in the Cuculidae family. It is endemic to forest and woodland on the Indonesian islands of Sulawesi, Sula, Banggai, Togian and other smaller nearby islands. It has often been considered conspecific with E. scolopaceus, but they are increasingly treated as separate species. Unlike the Black-billed Koel, all other members of the common koel complex have a pale bill.

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