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Cuckoos of the World
By Robert B. Hole, Jr.
A simple checklist of birds in the Order
Cuculiformes.
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Order Cuculiformes
Family Muscophagidae (Turacos) [sometimes split to form the Order Muscophagiformes]
Great Blue Turaco Corythaeola cristata
Grey Plantain-eater Crinifer piscator
Eastern Grey Plantain-eater Crinifer zonurus
Go-away Bird Corythaixoides concolor
Bare-faced Go-away Bird Corythaixoides personata
White-bellied Go-away Bird Corythaixoides leucogaster
Violet Turaco Musophaga violacea
Lady Ross's Turaco Musophaga rossae
Knysna Turaco Tauraco corythaix
- Subspecies
- buffoni
- persa
- xenkeri
- Schuetii
- emini
- fischeri
- schalowi
- chalcolophus
- zanzibaricus
- livingsontii
- phoebus
- corythaix
Red-crested Turaco Tauraco erythrolophus
Bannerman's Turaco Tauraco bannermani
Crested Turaco Tauraco macrorhynchus
Hartlaub's Turaco Tauraco hartlaubi
White-cheeked Turaco Tauraco leucotis
Prince Ruspoli's Turaco Tauraco ruspolii
White-crested Turaco Tauraco leucolophus
Violet-crested Turaco Tauraco porphyreolophus
- Subspecies
- chlorochlamys
- porphyreolophus
Ruwenzori Turaco Tauraco johnstoni
- Subspecies
- johnstoni
- kivuensis
- bredoi
Family Cuculidae (Cuckoos)
Subfamily Cuculinae
Great Spotted Cuckoo Clamator glandarius
Red-winged Crested Cuckoo Clamator coromandus
Black and White Cuckoo Clamator jacobinus
Levaillant's Cuckoo Clamator levaillanti
Thick-billed Cuckoo Pachycoccyx audeberti
- Subspecies
- validus
- canescens
- audeberti
Celebes Hawk Cuckoo Cuculus crassirostris
Large Hawk Cuckoo Cuculus sparverioides
Common Hawk Cuckoo Cuculus varius
Small Hawk Cuckoo Cuculus vagans
Fugitive Hawk Cuckoo Cuculus fugax
- Subspecies
- hyperythrus
- nisicolor
- pectoralis
- fugax
Red-chested Cuckoo Cuculus solitarius
Black Cuckoo Cuculus cafer
Short-winged Cuckoo Cuculus micropterus
- Subspecies
- micropterus
- ognevi
- concretus
European Cuckoo Cuculus canorus
- Subspecies
- canorus
- bangsi
- kleinschmidti
- johanseni
- telephonus
- fallax
- bakeri
- subtelephonus
- gularis
Oriental Cuckoo Cuculus saturatus
- Subspecies
- horsfieldi
- lepidus
- saturatus
Little Cuckoo Cuculus poliocephalus
- Subspecies
- rochii
- poliocephalus
- insulindae
Pallid Cuckoo Cuculus pallidus
Dusky Long-tailed Cuckoo Cercococcyx mechowi
Olive Long-tailed Cuckoo Cercococcyx olivinus
Mountain Long-tailed Cuckoo Cercococcyx montanus
Banded Bay Cuckoo Penthoceryx sonneratii
- Subspecies
- sonneratii
- waiti
- malayanus
- fasciolatus
- musicus
Plaintive Cuckoo Cacomantis merulinus
- Subspecies
- passennus
- uerulus
- threnodes
- subpallidus
- lanceolatus
- merulinus
- celebensis
Brush Cuckoo Cacomantis variolossus
- Subspecies
- sepulcralis
- everetti
- virescens
- oblitus
- aeruginosus
- stresemanni
- infaustus
- chivae
- obscuratus
- fortior
- oreophilus
- blandus
- websteri
- macrocerus
- addendus
- vanolosus
Chestnut-breasted Cuckoo Cacomantis castaneiventris
- Subspecies
- arfakianus
- weiskei
- castaneiventis
Heinrich's Brush Cuckoo Cacomantis heinrichi
Fan-tailed Cuckoo Cacomantis pyrrhophanus
- Subspecies
- prionurus
- excitus
- meeki
- schistaceigularis
- pyrrhophanus
- simus
Little Long-billed Cuckoo Rhamphomantis megarhynchus
Black-eared Cuckoo Misocalius osculans
African Emerald Cuckoo Chrycoccyx cupreus
- Subspecies
- cupreus
- intermedius
- sharpei
Yellow-throated Green Cuckoo Chrysococcyx flavigularis
Klaas' Cuckoo Chrysococcyx klaas
Didric Cuckoo Chrysococcyx caprius
Emerald Cuckoo Chalcites maculatus
Violet Cuckoo Chalcites xanthorhynchus
- Subspecies
- xanthorhynchus
- limborgi
- bangueyensis
- amethystinus
Horsfield's Bronze Cuckoo Chalcites basalis
Golden-Bronze Cuckoo Chalcites lucidus
- Subspecies
- plagosus
- lucidus
- layardi
- aeneus
- harterti
Malay Emerald Cuckoo Chalcites malayanus
- Subspecies
- malayanus
- albifrons
- aheneus
- jungei
- rufomerus
- salvadorii
- misoriensis
- poecilurus
- russatus
- minutillus
Moluccan Bronze Cuckoo Chalcites crassitrostris
Reddish-throated Bronze Cuckoo Chalcites ruficollis
Meyer's Bronze Cuckoo Chalcites meyeri
White-crowned Koel Caiechthrus leucolophus
Drongo-Cuckoo Surniculus lugubris
- Subspecies
- dicruroides
- stewarti
- barussarum
- minimus
- lugubris
- velutinus
- musschenbroeki
Black-capped Cuckoo Microdynamis parva
Koel Eudynamys scolopacea
- Subspecies
- scolopacea
- chinensis
- harterti
- simalurensis
- malayana
- paraguena
- dolosa
- mindanensis
- frater
- melanorhyncha
- facialis
- everetti
- corvina
- orientalis
- salvadorii
- alberti
- rufiventer
- minima
Australian Koel Eudynamys cyanocephala
- Subspecies
- subcyanocephala
- cyanocephala
Long-tailed Koel Urodynamis taitensis
Channel-billed Cuckoo Scythrops novaehollandiae
Subfamily Phaenicophaeinae
Dwarf Cuckoo Coccyzus pumilus
Ash-colored Cuckoo Cuccyzus cinereus
Black-billed Cuckoo Coccyzus erythrophthalmus
Yellow-billed Cuckoo Coccyzus americanus
Pearly-breasted Cuckoo Coccyzus euleri
Mangrove Cuckoo Coccyzus minor
Cocos Island Cuckoo Coccyzus ferrugineus
Dark-billed Cuckoo Coccyzus melacoryphus
Grey-capped Cuckoo Coccyzus lansbergi
Pufous-breasted Cuckoo Piaya rufigularis
Chestnus-bellied Cuckoo Piaya pluvialis
Squirrel Cuckoo Piaya cayana
- Subspecies
- extima
- mexicana
- stirtoni
- thermophila
- mesura
- nigricrissa
- mehleri
- circe
- insulana
- cayana
- boliviana
- obscura
- helmaryi
- pallscens
- cearae
- cabanisi
- macroura
- mogenseni
Black-bellied Cuckoo Piaya melanogaster
Little Cuckoo Piaya minuta
- Subspecies
- panamensis
- gracilis
- minuta
- chaparensis
Great Lizard Cuckoo Saurothera merlini
- Subspecies
- bahamensis
- andria
- merlini
- decolor
Jamaican Lizard Cuckoo Saurothera vetula
- Subspecies
- vetula
- petersi
- longirostris
- saonae
- vieilloti
Yellow-bill Ceuthmochares aereus
- Subspecies
- flavirostris
- aereus
- intermedius
- australis
Lesser green-billed Malocha Rhopodytes diardi
Rufous-bellied Malcoha Rhopodytes sumatranus
Greater Green-billed Malcoha Rhopodytes tristis
- Subspecies
- tristis
- saliens
- longicaudatus
- hainanus
- elongatus
- kangeangensis
Small Green-billed Malcoha Rhopodytes viridirostris
Sirkeer Cuckoo Taccocua leschenaultii
- Subspecies
- sirkee
- infuscata
- affinis
- leschenaultii
Raffles' Malcoha Rhinortha chlorophaea
- Subspecies
- chlorophaea
- fuscigularis
- mayri
Red-billed Malcoha Zanclostomus javanicus
- Subspecies
- pallidus
- factus
- javanicus
- natunensis
Celebes Malcoha Rhampococcyx calyorgynchus
- Subspecies
- calyorhynchus
- centralis
- meridionalis
- rufiloris
Chestnut-breasted Malcoha Rhamphococcyx curvirostris
- Subspecies
- erythroghathsu
- oeneicaudus
- curvirostris
- deningen
- borneensis
- harringtoni
Red-faced Malcoha Phaenicophaeus pyrrhocephalus
Rough-crested Cuckoo Dasylophus superciliosus
Scale-feathered Cuckoo Lepidogrammus cumingi
Subfamily Crotophaginae
Greater Ani Crotophaga major
Smooth-billed Ani Crotophaga ani
Groove-billed Ani Crotophaga sulcirostris
Guira Cuckoo Guira guira
Subfamily Neomorphinae
Striped Cuckoo Tapera naevia
Lesser Ground Cuckoo Morococcyx erythropygus
- Subspecies
- dilutus
- simulans
- mexicanus
- erythropygus
- macrourus
Pheasant Cuckoo Dromococcyx phasianellus
Pavonine Cuckoo Dromococcyx pavoninus
Greater Road-runner Geococcyx california
Lesser Road-runner Geococcyx velox
- Subspecies
- melanchima
- velox
- affinis
- pallidus
- longisignum
Rufous-vented Ground Cuckoo Neomorphus geoffroyi
- Subspecies
- salvini
- aequatonalis
- australis
- geoffroyi
- dulcis
Scaled Ground Cuckoo Neomorphus squamiger
Banded Ground Cuckoo Neomorphus radiolosus
Rufous-winged Ground Cuckoo Neomorphus rufipennis
Red-billed Ground Cuckoo Neomorphus pucheranii
Ground Cuckoo Carpococcyx radiceus
Coral-billed Ground Cuckoo Carpococcyx renauldi
Subfamily Couinae
Giant Madagascar Coucal Coua gagas
Coquerel's Madagascar Coucal Coua coquereli
Rufous-breasted Madacascar Coucal Coua serriana
Red-footed Madagascar Coucal Coua reynaudii
Running Coucal Coua cursor
Red-capped Madagascar Coucal Coua ruficeps
Crested Madagascar Coucal Coua cristata
- Subspecies
- dumonti
- cristata
- pyropyga
- maxima
Southern Crested Madagascar Coucal Coua verreauxi
Blue Madagascar Coucal Coua caerulea
Subfamily Centropodinae
Buff-headed Coucal Centropus milo
Large Coucal Centropus goliath
Violet Coucal Centropus violaceus
Greater Coucal Centropus menbecki
- Subspecies
- menbecki
- jobiensis
- aruensis
New Britain Coucal Centropus ateralbus
Biak Island Coucal Centropus chalybeus
Pheasant Coucal Centropus phasianius
- Subspecies
- propinquus
- nigricans
- obscuratus
- thierfelderi
- phasianius
- mocrourus
Moluccan Coucal Centropus spilopterus
Bernstein's Coucal Centropus bernteini
Ceylon Coucal Centropus chlororhynchus
Short-toed Coucal Centropus rectunguis
Steere's Coucal Centropus steerii
Common Crow-Pheasant Centropus sinensis
- Subspecies
- parroti
- sinsensis
- intermedius
- eurycercus
- bubutus
- anonymous
- kangeanensis
- andamanensis
Sunda Coucal Centropus nigrorufus
Philappine Coucal Centropus virdis
- Subspecies
- viridis
- carpenten
- mindorensis
Black Coucal Centropus toulou
- Subspecies
- toulou
- insularis
- assumpionis
Lesser Coucal Centropus bengalensis
- Subspecies
- bengalensis
- lingator
- favanensis
- sarasinorum
- medius
Black-chested Coucal Centropus grillii
- Subspecies
- grillii
- caeruleiceps
- wahlbergi
Rufous-bellied Coucal Centropus epomidis
Black-throated Coucal Centropus leucogaster
- Subspecies
- leucogaster
- efulenensis
- neumanni
Gabon Coucal Centropus anselli
Blue-headed Coucal Centropus monachus
- Subspecies
- occidentalis
- angolensis
- fischeri
- monachus
- songweensis
- cupreicaudus
Senegal Coucal Centropus sensgalensis
- Subspecies
- aegyptus
- senegalensis
- incertus
- flecki
White-browed Coucal Centropus superciliosus
- Subspecies
- loandae
- superciliosus
- sokatrae
- burchellii
Black-faced Coucal Centropus melanops
Celebes Coucal Centropus celebensis
Rufous Coucal Centropus unirufus
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