Large hawk-cuckoo
Large hawk-cuckoo | |
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Scientific classification | |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Aves |
Order: | Cuculiformes |
Family: | Cuculidae |
Genus: | Hierococcyx |
Species: | H. sparverioides |
Binomial name | |
Hierococcyx sparverioides (Vigors, 1832) | |
Synonyms | |
Cuculus sparverioides |
The large hawk-cuckoo (Hierococcyx sparverioides) is a species of cuckoo in the Cuculidae family.
Distribution
It is found in Bangladesh, Bhutan, Cambodia, China, India, Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, Myanmar, Nepal, Pakistan, the Philippines, Singapore, Taiwan, Thailand, and Vietnam. Found as a vagrant on Christmas Island.[2] The subspecies H. s. bocki of the Malay Peninsula, Sumatra and Borneo is usually considered a separate species, the dark hawk-cuckoo.[3]
Habitats
Its natural habitats are temperate forests and subtropical or tropical mangrove forests.
Behavior
They call in summer and the calling goes on well after dusk.
Like many other cuckoos, this species is a brood parasite.
- Actinodura nipalensis
- Alcippe nipalensis
- Arachnothera longirostris
- Arachnothera magna
- Brachypteryx leucophris
- Brachypteryx nipalensis[5]
- Cettia fortipes
- Garrulax pectoralis
- Garrulax phoeniceus
- Garrulax cineraceus
- Garrulax lineatus
- Garrulax rufogularis
- Garrulax nigrimentum[6]
- Garrulax mitratus
- Garrulax erythrocephalus
- Garrulax monileger
- Garrulax subcaerulatus[7]
- Geokichla citrina
- Lanius cristatus
- Lanius nigriceps[8]
- Leiothrix lutea
- Muscicapa hodgsoni
- Muscicapa macgregoriae
- Muscicapa parva
- Muscicapa rubeculoides
- Myophonus caeruleus
- Pellorneum ignotum[9]
- Pellorneum ruficeps
- Pomatorhinus erythrogenys
- Pycnonotus cafer
- Stachyris nigriceps
- Stachyris ruficeps
- Stachyris rufifrons
- Suya khasiana[10]
- Turdoides sp.
- Turdus dauma
- Yuhina flavicollis
- Yuhina occipitalis
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References
- ↑ BirdLife International (2014). "Hierococcyx sparverioides". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2014.3. International Union for Conservation of Nature. Retrieved 31 December 2014.
- ↑ McAllan, I.A.W., James, D.J. 2008 Large Hawk-Cuckoo Hierococcyx sparverioides on Christmas Island. Australian Field Ornithology 25 (1):31-35
- ↑ Payne, Robert B. (2005) The Cuckoos, Oxford University Press.
- ↑ Numerov, A. D. Inter-species and Intra-species brood parasitism in Birds. Voronezh: Voronezh University. 2003. 516 p. [In Russian] Нумеров А. Д. Межвидовой и внутривидовой гнездовой паразитизм у птиц. Воронеж: ФГУП ИПФ Воронеж. 2003. C. 38-40.
- ↑ As subspecies of Brachypteryx leucophrys
- ↑ As subspecies of Garrulax erythrocephalus
- ↑ As subspecies of Garrulax caerulatus
- ↑ As subspecies of Lanius schach
- ↑ As subspecies of Pellorneum albiventre
- ↑ As subspecies of Prinia atrogularis
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