The Zoochat Photographic Guide to Turacos, Cuckoos, Bustards and the Hoatzin.

Ceuthmochares


Chattering Yellowbill (Ceuthmochares aereus)

The range of this species extends throughout coastal West Africa and much of central Africa, from Senegal and Gambia in the west to Uganda and western Tanzania in the east, and south to northern Angola and southern DRC.

Two subspecies are recognised:

C. a. flavirostris
C. a. aereus - photo by @Hix




Whistling Yellowbill (Ceuthmochares australis)

The range of this species extends throughout East Africa, from southwest Somalia in the north to southeast South Africa in the south; a disjunct population is present in south-central Ethiopia.

Monotypic; no photographs of this species are present in the Zoochat gallery.
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Taccocua


Sirkeer Malkoha (Taccocua leschenaultii)

The range of this species extends throughout the Indian Subcontinent and Sri Lanka.

Three subspecies recognised:

T. l. sirkee
T. l. infuscata
T. l. leschenaultii

No photographs of this species are present in the Zoochat gallery.
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Zanclostomus


Red-billed Malkoha (Zanclostomus javanicus)

The range of this species extends from southern Myanmar, throughout the Malay Peninsula and into the Greater Sundas; absent from Sulawesi.

Three subspecies recognised:

Z. j. pallidus
Z. j. natunensis
Z. j. javanicus

No photographs of this species are present in the Zoochat gallery.
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Phaenicophaeus


Red-faced Malkoha (Phaenicophaeus pyrrhocephalus)

Endemic to southern Sri Lanka.

Monotypic; no photographs of this species are present in the Zoochat gallery.


Blue-faced Malkoha (Phaenicophaeus viridirostris)

The range of this species extends throughout southern and eastern Peninsular India and into Sri Lanka; a disjunct population exists in west-central India.

Monotypic; no photographs of this species are present in the Zoochat gallery.


Black-bellied Malkoha (Phaenicophaeus diardi)

The range of this species extends from southern Myanmar into the Malay Peninsula, and from here throughout Sumatra and Borneo.

Two subspecies recognised:

P. d. diardi - photo by @LaughingDove



P. d. borneensis


Chestnut-bellied Malkoha (Phaenicophaeus sumatranus)

The range of this species extends from southern Myanmar into the Malay Peninsula, and from here throughout Sumatra and Borneo.

Monotypic; no photographs of this species are present in the Zoochat gallery.


Green-billed Malkoha (Phaenicophaeus tristis)

The range of this species extends throughout much of southeast Asia, from the Himalayas of northern India in the west, to southern China and Hainan in the east, and south throughout Indochina and the Malay Peninsula into Sumatra.

Six subspecies recognised:

P. t. tristis
P. t. saliens
P. t. hainanus
P. t. longicaudatus - photo by @LaughingDove



P. t. elongatus
P. t. kangeangensis


Chestnut-breasted Malkoha (Phaenicophaeus curvirostris)

The range of this species extends from southern Myanmar into the Malay Peninsula, and from here throughout the Greater Sundas into the southwest Philippines and Bali.

Five subspecies recognised:

P. c. singularis - photo by @jayjds2



P. c. curvirostris
P. c. deningeri
P. c. microrhinus
P. c. harringtoni


Mentawai Malkoha (Phaenicophaeus oeneicaudus)

Endemic to the Mentawai Islands, off the western coastline of Sumatra.

Monotypic; no photographs of this species are present in the Zoochat gallery.
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Dasylophus


Red-crested Malkoha (Dasylophus superciliosus)

The range of this species extends patchily throughout Luzon and adjacent regions of the northern Philippines.

Two subspecies recognised:

D. s. cagayanensis
D. s. superciliosus

No photographs of this species are present in the Zoochat gallery.
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Lepidogrammus


Scale-feathered Malkoha (Lepidogrammus cumingi)

The range of this species extends throughout Luzon, Marinduque and Catanduanes in the northern Philippines.

Monotypic; no photographs of this species are present in the Zoochat gallery.
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Rhamphococcyx


Yellow-billed Malkoha (Rhamphococcyx calyorhynchus)

Endemic to Sulawesi and surrounding offshore islands.

Three subspecies recognised:

R. c. calyorhynchus
R. c. meridionalis
R. c. rufiloris

No photographs of this species are present in the Zoochat gallery.
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Clamator


Jacobin Cuckoo (Clamator jacobinus)

The range of this species extends throughout sub-Saharan Africa, barring the Congo Basin and the arid regions of the southwest and the Horn of Africa, and also throughout the Indian Subcontinent, Sri Lanka and northwest Myanmar.

Three subspecies are recognised:

C. j. pica
C. j. serratus
C. j. jacobinus - photo by @ralph




Levaillant's Cuckoo (Clamator levaillantii)

The summer breeding range of this species extends throughout much of sub-Saharan Africa, from northern Senegal in the west to Eritrea and central Ethiopia in the east, and south to northern Namibia in the west and northeast South Africa and Swaziland in the east; the wintering range of this species extends throughout coastal West Africa and the Congo Basin, from southern Sierra Leone in the west to southern South Sudan and Uganda in the east, and south to the western coastline of DRC.

Monotypic.

Photo by @Maguari




Chestnut-winged Cuckoo (Clamator coromandus)

The summer breeding range of this species extends throughout much of southern Asia, from northern India and Nepal in the west to central and eastern China in the east, and south throughout Indochina into the northern Malay Peninsula; wintering populations are present from the southern Indian Subcontinent and Sri Lanka in the west to southeast Indochina in the east, and south throughout the Malay Peninsula into the Greater Sundas and Philippines. Resident populations are present in central India, southern Indochina and Hainan.

Monotypic.

Photo by @Chlidonias




Great Spotted Cuckoo (Clamator glandarius)

The summer breeding range of this species extends patchily from the Iberian Peninsula in the west, throughout the Mediterranean into Asia Minor and the Middle East, and also throughout southern Africa from southern Angola and central Mozambique south to Lesotho and southeast South Africa; wintering populations extend patchily throughout northern Africa and southern Spain, and also into regions of Africa where resident populations are located; the resident range of the species extends throughout much of sub-Saharan Africa, from Senegal in the west to Ethiopia and Eritrea in the east, and south throughout eastern Africa to Zambia, Malawi and northern Mozambique. Absent from the Congo Basin.

Monotypic.

Photo by @alexkant


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Coccycua


Little Cuckoo (Coccycua minuta)

The range of this species extends throughout much of northern South America east of the Andes, from eastern Panama and northern Colombia in the west to the Guianas and northern Brazil in the east, and south to northeast Bolivia and west-central Brazil; on the western slope of the Andes the range of the species extends patchily into western Ecuador.

Four subspecies are recognised:

C. m. panamensis
C. m. gracilis
C. m. minuta
C. m. chaparensis

No photographs of this species are present in the Zoochat gallery.


Dwarf Cuckoo (Coccycua pumila)

The range of this species extends patchily throughout northern and central Colombia, and east into northeast Venezuela.

Monotypic; no photographs of this species are present in the Zoochat gallery.


Ash-colored Cuckoo (Coccycua cinerea)

The summer breeding range of this species extends from northern Argentina, Uruguay and southern Brazil, north to northern Paraguay and adjacent regions of southwest Brazil; wintering populations extend north along the eastern flank of the Andes from here to northwest Brazil and immediately adjacent areas of extreme southern Colombia.

Monotypic; no photographs of this species are present in the Zoochat gallery.
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Piaya


Mexican Squirrel-cuckoo (Piaya mexicana)

The range of this species extends from northwest Mexico, throughout the Pacific slope to the Isthmus of Tehuantepec in the south.

Monotypic; no photographs of this species are present in the Zoochat gallery.


Common Squirrel-cuckoo (Piaya cayana)

The range of this species extends from eastern Mexico in the north, throughout Central America into northern Colombia, Venezuela and the Guianas, and from here throughout South America east of the Andes as far south as northern and northeast Argentina, Uruguay and southern Brazil; on the western slope of the Andes populations extend as far south as southernmost Ecuador and immediately-adjacent northwest Peru.

Thirteen subspecies are recognised:

P. c. thermophila - photo by @ralph



P. c. nigricrissa
P. c. mehleri
P. c. circe
P. c. cayana
P. c. insulana
P. c. mesura - photo by @ronnienl



P. c. obscura
P. c. hellmayri
P. c. pallescens
P. c. cabanisi
P. c. macroura
P. c. mogenseni


Black-bellied Cuckoo (Piaya melanogaster)

The range of this species extends throughout southern Colombia, Venezuela and the Guianas in the north, and throughout the Amazon Basin as far south as eastern Peru, northern Bolivia and south-central Brazil.

Monotypic; no photographs of this species are present in the Zoochat gallery.
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Coccyzus


Yellow-billed Cuckoo (Coccyzus americanus)

The summer breeding range of this species extends from southeast Canada into central and eastern USA, and from here patchily into Mexico and the Greater Antilles; wintering populations extend throughout the majority of South America, barring the Pacific slope of the Andes from northern Peru to Tierra Del Fuego, and Argentina outside the northeast.

Monotypic.

Photo by @jbnbsn99




Pearly-breasted Cuckoo (Coccyzus euleri)

The range of this species extends throughout much of South America east of the Andes, from Colombia, Venezuela and the Guianas in the north to eastern Paraguay, northern Argentina and southwest Brazil in the south.

Monotypic; no photographs of this species are present in the Zoochat gallery.


Mangrove Cuckoo (Coccyzus minor)

The range of this species represents a highly-fragmented and patchy distribution throughout coastal regions of Mexico, southeast USA and Central America, through the Greater and Lesser Antilles into the Guianas and the Amazon estuary of northern Brazil.

Monotypic; no photographs of this species are present in the Zoochat gallery.


Cocos Cuckoo (Coccyzus ferrugineus)

Endemic to Cocos Island, off the western coastline of Costa Rica.

Monotypic; no photographs of this species are present in the Zoochat gallery.


Dark-billed Cuckoo (Coccyzus melacoryphus)

The range of this species extends throughout much of South America east of the Andes, from Colombia, Venezuela and the Guianas in the north to Uruguay and northern Argentina in the south; on the western slope of the Andes, populations extend as far south as southwest Peru; a disjunct population is present on the Galapagos Islands.

Monotypic; no photographs of this species are present in the Zoochat gallery.


Black-billed Cuckoo (Coccyzus erythropthalmus)

The summer breeding range of this species extends from south-central and southeast Canada in the north to south-central and southeast USA in the south; wintering populations extend throughout the Andes and adjacent areas of western South America, from northern Colombia in the north to central Bolivia in the south.

Monotypic.

Photo by @ronnienl




Grey-capped Cuckoo (Coccyzus lansbergi)

The range of this species is restricted to a pair of disjunct populations in northern South America; in northern Colombia and northwest Venezuela; and in western Ecuador.

Monotypic; no photographs of this species are present in the Zoochat gallery.


Chestnut-bellied Cuckoo (Coccyzus pluvialis)

Endemic to Jamaica.

Monotypic; no photographs of this species are present in the Zoochat gallery.


Bay-breasted Cuckoo (Coccyzus rufigularis)

The range of this species is restricted to a handful of sites in the Dominican Republic.

Monotypic; no photographs of this species are present in the Zoochat gallery.


Cuban Lizard-cuckoo (Coccyzus merlini)

Endemic to Cuba and the Isle of Pines.

Three subspecies recognised:

C. m. santamariae
C. m. merlini
C. m. decolor

No photographs of this species are present in the Zoochat gallery.


Puerto Rican Lizard-cuckoo (Coccyzus vieilloti)

Endemic to Puerto Rica.

Monotypic; no photographs of this species are present in the Zoochat gallery.


Bahama Lizard-cuckoo (Coccyzus bahamensis)

Endemic to the Bahamas.

Monotypic; no photographs of this species are present in the Zoochat gallery.


Jamaican Lizard-cuckoo (Coccyzus vetula)

Endemic to Jamaica.

Monotypic; no photographs of this species are present in the Zoochat gallery.


Hispaniolan Lizard-cuckoo (Coccyzus longirostris)

Endemic to Hispaniola.

Two subspecies recognised:

C. l. longirostris
C. l. petersi

Photo by @vogelcommando


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Pachycoccyx


Thick-billed Cuckoo (Pachycoccyx audeberti)

The range of this species extends patchily and in a highly-fragmented distribution throughout Madagascar and much of sub-Saharan Africa, from Sierra Leone in the west to eastern DRC in the east, and south to south-central Angola in the west and northeast South Africa in the east.

Three subspecies are recognised:

P. a. brazzae
P. a. validus
P. a. audeberti

Monotypic; no photographs of this species are present in the Zoochat gallery.
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Microdynamis


Dwarf Koel (Microdynamis parva)

Endemic to New Guinea and the D’Entrecasteaux Islands.

Two subspecies are recognised:

M. p. grisescens
M. p. parva

No photographs of this species are present in the Zoochat gallery.
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Eudynamys


Western Koel (Eudynamys scolopaceus)

The range of this species extends from southeast Pakistan and adjacent west-central India in the west, throughout the Indian Subcontinent and Sri Lanka into southern China, to eastern China and Hainan in the east, and south from here throughout Indochina and the Malay Peninsula into the Greater and Lesser Sundas and the Philippines; absent from Sulawesi.

Seven subspecies are recognised:

E. s. scolopaceus - photo by @ralph



E. s. chinensis
E. s. harterti
E. s. malayanus - photo by @LaughingDove



E. s. simalurensis
E. s. frater
E. s. mindanensis - photo by @alexkant




Eastern Koel (Eudynamys orientalis)

The range of this species extends from the Lesser Sundas and Sulawesi in the west, through the Moluccas and West Papuan Islands into New Guinea, and from here into the Bismarck Archipelago and Solomon Islands in the east; to the south, the species extends into northern and eastern Australia.

Twelve subspecies are recognised:

E. o. melanorhynchus
E. o. facialis
E. o. corvinus
E. o. orientalis
E. o. picatus
E. o. rufiventer
E. o. minimus
E. o. hybridus
E. o. salvadorii
E. o. alberti
E. o. subcyanocephalus
E. o. cyanocephalus - photo by @Hix


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Urodynamis


Long-tailed Koel (Urodynamis taitensis)

The summer breeding range of this species is New Zealand and surrounding offshore islands; wintering populations extend throughout much of Micronesia, Melanesia and Polynesia, from as far west as Palau to as far east as the Pitcairns; absent from New Guinea and New Caledonia.

Monotypic; no photographs of this species are present in the Zoochat gallery.
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Scythrops


Channel-billed Cuckoo (Scythrops novaehollandiae)

The range of this species extends from Sulawesi and the Lesser Sundas into the Moluccas, West Papuan Islands and New Guinea, and from here east into the Bismarck Archipelago and south into northern and eastern Australia.

Three subspecies are recognised:

S. n. fordi
S. n. novaehollandiae - photo by @Tomek



S. n. schoddei
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Chalcites


Long-billed Cuckoo (Chalcites megarhynchus)

The range of this species extends from the West Papuan and Aru Islands, and patchily throughout New Guinea.

Monotypic; no photographs of this species are present in the Zoochat gallery.


Horsfield's Bronze-cuckoo (Chalcites basalis)

The range of this species extends throughout Australia and Tasmania, with wintering populations extending patchily north into the Greater and Lesser Sundas, Moluccas and southern New Guinea.

Monotypic.

Photo by @Dannelboyz




Black-eared Cuckoo (Chalcites osculans)

The range of this species extends throughout Australia, with non-breeding populations extending patchily north into the Moluccas, eastern Lesser Sundas and southern New Guinea.

Monotypic; no photographs of this species are present in the Zoochat gallery.


Rufous-throated Bronze-cuckoo (Chalcites ruficollis)

The range of this species extends throughout the mountainous central spine of New Guinea.

Monotypic; no photographs of this species are present in the Zoochat gallery.


Shining Bronze-cuckoo (Chalcites lucidus)

The summer breeding range of this species extends throughout coastal Australia, Tasmania and New Zealand, with wintering populations extending north into the Lesser Sundas, Moluccas, New Guinea and Solomon Islands; resident populations are present throughout much of coastal Australia, New Caledonia, Vanuatu and surrounding islands of the southwest Pacific.

Four subspecies are recognised:

C. l. plagosus
C. l. harterti
C. l. layardi
C. l. lucidus

No photographs of this species are present in the Zoochat gallery.


White-eared Bronze-cuckoo (Chalcites meyerii)

The range of this species extends throughout the West Papuan Islands and the montane forests of New Guinea.

Monotypic; no photographs of this species are present in the Zoochat gallery.


Little Bronze-cuckoo (Chalcites minutillus)

The range of this species extends patchily and in a highly-fragmented distribution from southern Indochina and the Malay Peninsula, through the southern Philippines, Greater and Lesser Sundas, to New Guinea in the east, and south from here into the northern and northeastern coastline of Australia as far south as southeast Queensland.

Eleven subspecies are recognised:

C. m. peninsularis
C. m. albifrons
C. m. cleis
C. m. minutillus
C. m. barnardi
C. m. rufomerus
C. m. aheneus
C. m. jungei
C. m. poecilurus
C. m. misoriensis
C. m. russatus

No photographs of this species are present in the Zoochat gallery.


Pied Bronze-cuckoo (Chalcites crassirostris)

The range of this species extends patchily through the southernmost Moluccas and easternmost Lesser Sundas.

C. c. crassirostris
C. c. salvadorii

No photographs of this species are present in the Zoochat gallery.
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Chrysococcyx


Asian Emerald Cuckoo (Chrysococcyx maculatus)

The range of this species extends from the Himalayas of northern India and Nepal in the west to northern Myanmar and southern China in the east, and south into northern Indochina and Hainan; a disjunct population exists in south-central Vietnam. Wintering populations extend patchily throughout southern Indochina, the Malay Peninsula and northern Sumatra, and west into the Andamans, Sri Lanka and southern India.

Monotypic; no photographs of this species are present in the Zoochat gallery.


Violet Cuckoo (Chrysococcyx xanthorhynchus)

The range of this species extends from northeast India and northern Myanmar in the north, throughout Indochina and the Malay Peninsula, to the Greater Sundas in the south and the Philippines in the east.

Two subspecies are recognised:

C. x. xanthorhynchus - photo by @LaughingDove



C. x. amethystinus


Yellow-throated Cuckoo (Chrysococcyx flavigularis)

The range of this species extends patchily throughout coastal West Africa and the Congo Basin, from Sierra Leone in the west to northeast DRC and northwest Uganda in the east, and south to coastal western DRC.

Monotypic; no photographs of this species are present in the Zoochat gallery.


Klaas's Cuckoo (Chrysococcyx klaas)

The range of this species extends throughout sub-Saharan Africa, from Mauritania and Senegal in the west to Eritrea, Ethiopia and - across the Red Sea - the southwest Arabian Peninsula in the east, and south to the Western Cape; largely absent from the arid southwest of the Kalahari and adjacent areas of Namibia, Botswana and South Africa, and the Horn of Africa.

Monotypic; no photographs of this species are present in the Zoochat gallery.


African Emerald Cuckoo (Chrysococcyx cupreus)

The range of this species extends throughout sub-Saharan Africa, from Senegal and Gambia in the west to Eritrea and Ethiopia in the east, and south to northern Angola and the Western Cape.

Monotypic; no photographs of this species are present in the Zoochat gallery.


Diederik Cuckoo (Chrysococcyx caprius)

The range of this species extends throughout sub-Saharan Africa from Senegal in the west to central Sudan in the east, and south to the Western Cape; also patchily present in Eritrea, Ethiopia and the southern Arabian Peninsula.

No photographs of this species are present in the Zoochat gallery.
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Cacomantis


Chestnut-breasted Cuckoo (Cacomantis castaneiventris)

The range of this species extends throughout New Guinea and the West Papuan and Aru Islands, and patchily south into coastal Cape York in northeast Australia.

Three subspecies are recognised:

C. c. arfakianus
C. c. weiskei
C. c. castaneiventris

No photographs of this species are present in the Zoochat gallery.


Fan-tailed Cuckoo (Cacomantis flabelliformis)

The range of this species extends through the mountainous central spine of New Guinea, east from here thoughout Melanesia and Polynesia from the Solomon Islands to Fiji, and south into eastern Australia from Cape York in the north to Tasmania in the south; a disjunct population is present in southwestern Australia.

Six subspecies are recognised

C. f. excitus
C. f. meeki
C. f. schistaceigularis
C. f. pyrrophanus
C. f. simus
C. f. flabelliformis - photo by @Hix




Banded Bay Cuckoo (Cacomantis sonneratii)

The range of this species extends throughout much of southeast Asia, from Peninsular India and Sri Lanka in the west to southernmost China in the east, and south through Indochina and the Malay Peninsula into the Greater Sundas and Palawan in the southwest Philippines.

Four subspecies are recognised:

C. s. sonneratii - photo by @Chlidonias



C. s. waiti
C. s. fasciolatus
C. s. musicus


Plaintive Cuckoo (Cacomantis merulinus)

The range of this species extends throughout southeast Asia, from Assam and Bhutan in the west to southeast China and Hainan in the east, and south through Indochina and the Malay Peninsula into the Greater Sundas and Philippines; wintering populations are present in east-central Peninsular India.

Four subspecies are recognised:

C. m. querulus
C. m. threnodes
C. m. lanceolatus
C. m. merulinus

No photographs of this species are present in the Zoochat gallery.


Grey-bellied Cuckoo (Cacomantis passerinus)

The summer breeding range of this species extends throughout the Himalayas, from northeast Pakistan and northwest India in the west to Assam, Bhutan and northern Bangladesh in the east, with wintering populations in Sri Lanka; resident populations are present in central and southern Peninsular India.

Monotypic.

Photo by @Chlidonias




Brush Cuckoo (Cacomantis variolosus)

The range of this species extends patchily from the Malay Peninsula in the west, through the Greater and Lesser Sundas, Philippines, Moluccas and New Guinea, to the Solomon Islands and Bismarck Archipelago in the east, and south into coastal northern and eastern Australia.

Ten subspecies are recognised:

C. v. sepulcralis
C. v. everetti
C. v. virescens
C. v. infaustus
C. v. oreophilus
C. v. blandus
C. v. macrocercus
C. v. websteri
C. v. addendus
C. v. variolosus

No photographs of this species are present in the Zoochat gallery.


Moluccan Cuckoo (Cacomantis aeruginosus)

The range of this species extends throughout the Moluccas.

Two subspecies are recognised:

C. a. heinrichi
C. a. aeruginosus

Monotypic; no photographs of this species are present in the Zoochat gallery.
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Heteroscenes


Pallid Cuckoo (Heteroscenes pallidus)

The range of this species extends throughout Australia and Tasmania, with wintering populations extending north into the eastern Lesser Sundas and southern New Guinea.

Monotypic.

Photo by @Chlidonias


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