Pheasant Coucal
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| Centropus phasianinus (Latham, 1801) |
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.
Three species are recognised: phasianinus, melanurus, thierfelderi.
The pheasant coucal's summer voice is a low descending 'boop boop boop'. It's winter voice is a sharp hissing.[1]
[edit] Source
- BirdLife International 2004. Centropus phasianinus. 2006 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Downloaded on 24 July 2007.
[edit] References
- ^ Simpson & Day (1999). Field Guide to the Birds of Australia,Ringwood: Penguin Books Australia. ISBN 0 670 87918 5
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