Fan-tailed Cuckoo

Fan-tailed Cuckoo

Taxobox
name = Fan-tailed Cuckoo


status = LC | status_system = IUCN3.1
regnum = Animalia
phylum = Chordata
classis = Aves
ordo = Cuculiformes
familia = Cuculidae
genus = "Cacomantis"
species = "C. flabelliformis"
binomial = "Cacomantis flabelliformis"
binomial_authority = Latham, 1801
synonyms =

The Fan-tailed Cuckoo ("Cacomantis flabelliformis") is a species of cuckoo in the Cuculidae family.It is found in Australia, Fiji, Indonesia, New Caledonia, New Zealand, Papua New Guinea, Solomon Islands, and Vanuatu.

Habitat

Its natural habitats are temperate forests, subtropical or tropical mangrove forests, subtropical or tropical moist montanes, paddocks, orchards and gardens.The Australian range is from Cape York in Queensland following the coast south to Shark Bay in Western Australia. Along the west coast, its range extends no more than 1000km inland. In South Australia the rang is along the coast except in the south-east corner around Mount Gambier and the Eyre Peninsula. It also inhabits Tasmania.

Breeding and social habits

In Australia the species breeds from July to January. They only lay one mauve white with red and/or brown spotted egg in the nest of other birds like fairy wrens or thornbill. The nest preferred is usually domed in shape. Voice is like a descending trill with a grasshopper-like chirrip

Diet

The species in Australia eats a variety of insect and their larvae, fruits and vegetables, small reptiles, mammals and birds, especially bird chicks.


References

* BirdLife International 2004. [http://www.iucnredlist.org/search/details.php/47812/all Cacomantis flabelliformis] . [http://www.iucnredlist.org 2006 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species.] Downloaded on 24 July 2007.
* "Field guide to the birds of Australia" Graham Pizzey and Frank Knight, Angus & Robertson 1997, 3rd edition 2000. ISBN 0-207-19714-8

External links

* [http://www.aviceda.org/abid/birdimages.php?action=birdspecies&fid=17&bid=114 ABID Images]
* [http://ibc.hbw.com/ibc/phtml/especie.phtml?idEspecie=2433 On the HBW Internet Bird Collection]


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