|
FAN-TAILED CUCKOO FACTS |
Description
The Fan-tailed Cuckoo is slate grey above with reddish chest. The eye is black with a yellow ring. The female is similar with duller chest colour. Immatures are buff brown above streaked with darker brown, with grey and brown barred or scaled pattern on chest.
Size
26cm
Habitat
rainforest, dense woodland, open countryside, parks and gardens
Food
insects, larvae, fruit, berries
Breeding
Lays in domed nests of fairy wrens, thornbills, scrubwrens, or sometimes in cup nests of honeyeaters and flycatchers.
Range
eastern Australia from Cape York in Queensland to South Australia and southern parts of Western Australia.
Credits:
Map is from Atlas of Living Australia website at https://biocache.ala.org.au licensed under Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License.
Classification
| Class: | Aves | | Order: | Cuculiformes | | Family: | Cuculidae | | Genus: | Cuculus | | Species: | pyrrhophanus | | Common Name: | Fan-tailed Cuckoo |
Relatives in same Genus
Oriental Cuckoo (C. optatus)
Pallid Cuckoo (C. pallidus)
|
|
