Channel-billed cuckoo

Channel-billed Cuckoo
Conservation status
	Least Concern
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Aves
Order:	Cuculiformes
Family:	Cuculidae
Genus:	Scythrops
Species:	S. novaehollandiae
Binomial name
	Scythrops novaehollandiae; Latham, 1790

The Channel-billed Cuckoo (Scythrops novaehollandiae) is a species of cuckoo in the Cuculidae family. It is monotypic within the genus Scythrops.

File:Cuckoo being fed by "mother" magpie.jpg

Channel-billed Cuckoo chick being fed by much smaller "mother" magpie in Sydney, Australia

It is found in Australia, Papua New Guinea and Indonesia, (additionally it is vagrant in New Caledonia and New Zealand). Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests and subtropical or tropical mangrove forests.

Source

BirdLife International 2004. Scythrops novaehollandiae. 2006 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Downloaded on 24 July 2007.

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