Pheasant Coucal

Pheasant Coucal
Pheasant Coucal
Conservation status
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves
Order: Cuculiformes
Family: Cuculidae
Genus: Centropus
Species: C. phasianinus
Binomial name
Centropus phasianinus
(Latham, 1801)

The Pheasant Coucal (Centropus phasianinus) is a species of cuckoo in the Cuculidae family. It is found in Australia, Indonesia, and Papua New Guinea. Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests and subtropical or tropical mangrove forests. The Pheasant Coucal is unusual among Australian cuckoos in that it incubates and raises its own young instead of laying its eggs in the nest of another species.

The Pheasant Coucal's summer voice is a low descending 'boop boop boop'. Its winter voice is a sharp hissing.[1]

Source

References

  1. ^ Simpson & Day (1999). Field Guide to the Birds of Australia, Ringwood: Penguin Books Australia. ISBN 0 670 87918 5

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