Long-tailed Cuckoo

Taxobox
name = Long-tailed Cuckoo


status = LC | status_system = IUCN3.1
regnum = Animalia
phylum = Chordata
classis = Aves
ordo = Cuculiformes
familia = Cuculidae
genus = "Eudynamys"
species = "E. taitensis"
binomial = "Eudynamys taitensis"
binomial_authority = (Sparrman, 1787)
synonyms =

The Long-tailed Cuckoo ("Eudynamys taitensis"), also known as the Long-tailed Koel or the Koekoeā in Māori, is a species of cuckoo in the Cuculidae family. The species breeds in New Zealand, and migrates to the islands of the western Pacific in the winter.

The Long-tailed Cuckoo is a brood parasite, laying its eggs in the nests of Yellowheads, Whiteheads and Brown Creepers. The eggs hatch before those of the host do so and the young chicks eject the eggs of the host. Long-tail Cuckoo chicks are able to mimic the calls of their host's chicks.

ource

* BirdLife International 2004. [http://www.iucnredlist.org/search/details.php/47833/all Eudynamys taitensis] . [http://www.iucnredlist.org 2006 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. ] Downloaded on 24 July 2007.
*Davies, N (2000) "Cuckoos, Cowbirds and Other Cheats" T & A D Poyser, London, ISBN 0-85661-135-2