Sumatran Ground-cuckoo

Sumatran Ground-cuckoo

Taxobox
name = Sumatran Ground Cuckoo
status = CR | status_system = IUCN3.1
regnum = Animalia
phylum = Chordata
classis = Aves
ordo = Cuculiformes
familia = Cuculidae
genus = "Carpococcyx"
species = "C. viridis"
binomial = "Carpococcyx viridis"
binomial_authority = Salvadori, 1879The Sumatran Ground Cuckoo ("Carpococcyx viridis") is a large, up to 55 cm long, long-tailed terrestrial cuckoo. It has a green upperparts plumage with black crown, green bill and legs, bluish green bare orbital skin and brown below. It was formerly considered conspecific with the Bornean Ground-cuckoo.

An Indonesian endemic, the Sumatran Ground Cuckoo is distributed to rainforests of southern Sumatra. Before it was rediscovered and photographed in 1997 by Andjar Rafiastanto, this elusive species was known only from eight specimens.

In 2006, a camera-trap surveying for tigers close to Kerinci Seblat National Park took an image of the Sumatran Ground Cuckoo, only the second time it had been recorded in the last ninety years. The current population is estimated at less than 250.

In 2007, its call was recorded for the first time according to New York-based Wildlife Conservation Society in a statement released February 26. The call, described as a two-syllable shriek, was recorded by WCS biologists after a trapper handed them a bird he had caught. [cite news | publisher=Yahoo! News | title=Biologists record call of rare bird | author = | url=http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20070226/sc_nm/cuckoo_call_dc | date=February 26, 2007 | accessdate=2007-02-26]

Due to ongoing habitat loss and small population size, the Sumatran Ground Cuckoo is evaluated as Critically Endangered on the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. [IUCN2006|assessors=BirdLife International|year=2004|id=40425|title=Carpococcyx viridis|downloaded=26 November 2006]

External links

* [http://www.birdlife.org/datazone/species/index.html?action=SpcHTMDetails.asp&sid=9787&m=0 BirdLife Species Factsheet]
* [http://www.redlist.org/search/details.php?species=40425 IUCN Red List]
* [http://www.birdlife.org/news/news/2006/07/cuckoo.html Tiger trap goes cuckoo]

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