Pheasant Coucal
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| Pheasant Coucal | |
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Aves |
| Order: | Cuculiformes |
| Family: | Cuculidae |
| Genus: | Centropus |
| Species: | C. phasianinus |
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| Centropus phasianinus (Latham, 1801) |
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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. It has adapted well to canefields in northern Australia.[1] 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.[2]
[edit] Source
- BirdLife International 2004. Centropus phasianinus. 2006 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Downloaded on 24 July 2007.
[edit] References
- ^ Blakers et al. (1984). The Atlas of Australian Birds, Carlton: Melbourne University Press. ISBN 0 522 84285 2
- ^ Simpson & Day (1999). Field Guide to the Birds of Australia, Ringwood: Penguin Books Australia. ISBN 0 670 87918 5
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