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ORIENTAL CUCKOO FACTS |
Description
The Oriental Cuckoo is a large cuckoo with bold dark bars on white underside. The male has grey head, back and wings, with underside barred with black on white background. The female has two colour forms. The grey morph is similar to male with pinkish brown neck streaked with dark. The rufous form the upper parts and head are boldly barred in reddish brown and grey. Juveniles have wing and back feathers edged with white giving scalloped appearance, and the head is streaked, with grey and white barring on underside from throat down to belly.
Size
30 cm
Habitat
forest, woodland, riverside trees
Food
insects and caterpillars
Breeding
nests in cup shaped nests of other species such as honeyeaters, flycatchers
Range
The Oriental Cuckoo in eastern New South Wales, eastern Queensland and Cape York Peninsula, and top end of Northern Territory
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: | optatus | | Common Name: | Oriental Cuckoo |
Relatives in same Genus
Pallid Cuckoo (C. pallidus)
Fan-tailed Cuckoo (C. pyrrhophanus)
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