Cuculus
Sulawesi Cuckoo (Cuculus crassirostris)
Endemic to the mountains of northern and central Sulawesi.
Monotypic; no photographs of this species are present in the Zoochat gallery.
Red-chested Cuckoo (Cuculus solitarius)
The range of this species extends throughout sub-Saharan Africa from Senegal in the west to central and northwest Ethiopia in the east, and south to the Western Cape; absent from the arid southwest of southern Angola, Namibia, western South Africa and Botswana. The range south of Gabon in the west and northern Tanzania in the east represents migratory summer breeding populations.
Monotypic; no photographs of this species are present in the Zoochat gallery.
Black Cuckoo (Cuculus clamosus)
The summer breeding range of this species extends throughout sub-Saharan Africa from southern Sierra Leone in the west to Eritrea and central Ethiopia in the east, and south to the Western Cape, but absent from much of interior and western South Africa and coastal Namibia; wintering populations extend throughout equatorial West Africa, from Senegal in the west to southwest Chad in the east. Populations in coastal West Africa and the Congo Basin, extending east to western Tanzania, are resident.
Monotypic; no photographs of this species are present in the Zoochat gallery.
Indian Cuckoo (Cuculus micropterus)
The range of this species extends from the Himalayas of northeast Pakistan in the west to northeast China, the Russian Far East and the Korean Peninsula in the east, and south into the Indian Subcontinent and Sri Lanka in the west, and Indochina and the Malay Peninsula in the east, extending from here into the Greater Sundas; the north of this range represents summer breeding populations which winter in Indochina, the Malay Peninsula and the Greater Sundas - where resident populations are also present - and also into the Philippines.
Two subspecies recognised:
C. m. micropterus
C. m. concretus - photo by
@Hix
Common Cuckoo (Cuculus canorus)
The summer breeding range of this species extends throughout Eurasia, from the British Isles, Iberian Peninsula and northwest Africa in the west to the Russian Far East, Japan and southeast China in the east; only patchily present in southern Asia and the Middle East. The wintering range of this species extends throughout sub-Saharan Africa barring the arid southwest and the Horn of Africa, Sri Lanka and Indochina.
C. c. canorus - photo by
@ThylacineAlive
C. c. bangsi
C. c. subtelephonus
C. c. bakeri
African Cuckoo (Cuculus gularis)
The range of this species extends throughout sub-Saharan Africa, from Senegal in the west to Eritrea and central Ethiopia in the east, and south to northern Namibia in the west and northeast South Africa in the east; largely absent from coastal West Africa and the Congo Basin, and only seasonally present in the north, and south of Congo in the west and southern Tanzania in the east.
Monotypic.
Photo by
@Maguari
Oriental Cuckoo (Cuculus saturatus)
The summer breeding range of this species represents a pair of disjunct populations; from European Russia in the west, through Siberia, northern Kazakhstan and Mongolia, to the Russian Far East, Japan and the Korean Peninsula in the east; and from Kashmir in the west, throughout the Himalayas, northern Myanmar and southern China to southeast China, Hainan and Taiwan in the east. Wintering populations extend from southwest Indochina, through the Malay Peninsula, the Greater and Lesser Sundas, the Philippines and the Moluccas, into New Guinea and coastal northern and eastern Australia.
Two subspecies recognised:
C. s. optatus - photo by
@Hix
C. s. saturatus
Sunda Cuckoo (Cuculus lepidus)
The range of this species extends patchily from Peninsular Malaysia into the Greater and Lesser Sundas and the Moluccas.
Monotypic; no photographs of this species are present in the Zoochat gallery.
Lesser Cuckoo (Cuculus poliocephalus)
The summer breeding range of this species extends from northern Pakistan in the west, through the Himalayas, northern Myanmar and southern China to the Korean Peninsula, northeast China and Russian Far East in the east; resident in Taiwan and Hainan. Wintering populations are present in east Africa from southern Kenya in the north to east-central Mozambique in the south and west to southern DRC, and in Sri Lanka.
Monotypic.
Photo by
@devilfish
Madagascar Cuckoo (Cuculus rochii)
The breeding range of this species extends throughout Madagascar, with non-breeding populations seasonally present in east Africa from the Albertine Rift and northern Zambia in the west to eastern Kenya and northern Mozambique in the east.
Monotypic; no photographs of this species are present in the Zoochat gallery.
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