| White-crowned Cuckoo | |
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| Conservation status | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Aves |
| Order: | Cuculiformes |
| Family: | Cuculidae |
| Genus: | Caliechthrus Cabanis & Heine, 1863 |
| Species: | C. leucolophus |
| Binomial name | |
| Caliechthrus leucolophus (Müller, 1840) |
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| Synonyms | |
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Cacomantis leucolophus |
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The White-crowned Cuckoo or White-crowned Koel (Caliechthrus leucolophus or Cacomantis leucolophus) is a species of cuckoo in the Cuculidae family. It is often 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).[1] It is found in Indonesia and Papua New Guinea, occurring on New Guinea and neighbouring Salawati Island.