White-crowned Cuckoo
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| White-crowned Cuckoo | |
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| Conservation status | |
| 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 | |
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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[citation needed] 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
- ↑ Payne, Robert B. (2005) The Cuckoos, Oxford University Press.
- BirdLife International 2004. Caliechthrus leucolophus.
2006 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Downloaded on 24 July 2007.
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