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List of cuckoos

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The International Ornithological Committee (IOC) recognizes these 156 species of cuckoos in the family Cuculidae. In addition to the 92 species whose name includes "cuckoo", the family includes anis, roadrunners, coucals, couas, malkohas, and koels. They are distributed among 35 genera, some of which have only one species. Two extinct species (E), the snail-eating coua and the St. Helena cuckoo, are included.[1]

This list is presented according to the IOC taxonomic sequence and can also be sorted alphabetically by common name and binomial.

Common name Binomial name + authority IOC sequence
Guira cuckoo Guira guira (Gmelin, JF, 1788) 1
Greater ani Crotophaga major Gmelin, JF, 1788 2
Smooth-billed ani Crotophaga ani Linnaeus, 1758 3
Groove-billed ani Crotophaga sulcirostris Swainson, 1827 4
Striped cuckoo Tapera naevia (Linnaeus, 1766) 5
Pheasant cuckoo Dromococcyx phasianellus (Spix, 1824) 6
Pavonine cuckoo Dromococcyx pavoninus Pelzeln, 1870 7
Lesser ground cuckoo Morococcyx erythropygus (Lesson, RP, 1842) 8
Greater roadrunner Geococcyx californianus (Lesson, RP, 1829) 9
Lesser roadrunner Geococcyx velox (Wagner, 1836) 10
Rufous-vented ground cuckoo Neomorphus geoffroyi (Temminck, 1820) 11
Scaled ground cuckoo Neomorphus squamiger Todd, 1925 12
Banded ground cuckoo Neomorphus radiolosus Sclater, PL & Salvin, 1878 13
Rufous-winged ground cuckoo Neomorphus rufipennis (Gray, GR, 1849) 14
Red-billed ground cuckoo Neomorphus pucheranii (Deville, 1851) 15
Buff-headed coucal Centropus milo Gould, 1856 16
White-necked coucal Centropus ateralbus Lesson, RP, 1826 17
Ivory-billed coucal Centropus menbeki Lesson, RP & Garnot, 1828 18
Biak coucal Centropus chalybeus (Salvadori, 1876) 19
Rufous coucal Centropus unirufus (Cabanis & Heine, 1863) 20
Green-billed coucal Centropus chlororhynchos Blyth, 1849 21
Black-faced coucal Centropus melanops Lesson, RP, 1830 22
Black-hooded coucal Centropus steerii Bourns & Worcester, 1894 23
Short-toed coucal Centropus rectunguis Strickland, 1847 24
Bay coucal Centropus celebensis Quoy & Gaimard, 1832 25
Gabon coucal Centropus anselli Sharpe, 1874 26
Black-throated coucal Centropus leucogaster (Leach, 1814) 27
Senegal coucal Centropus senegalensis (Linnaeus, 1766) 28
Blue-headed coucal Centropus monachus Rüppell, 1837 29
Coppery-tailed coucal Centropus cupreicaudus Reichenow, 1896 30
White-browed coucal Centropus superciliosus Hemprich & Ehrenberg, 1829 31
Burchell's coucal Centropus burchellii Swainson, 1838 32
Sunda coucal Centropus nigrorufus (Cuvier, 1816) 33
Greater coucal Centropus sinensis (Stephens, 1815) 34
Malagasy coucal Centropus toulou (Müller, PLS, 1776) 35
Goliath coucal Centropus goliath Bonaparte, 1850 36
Black coucal Centropus grillii Hartlaub, 1861 37
Philippine coucal Centropus viridis (Scopoli, 1786) 38
Lesser coucal Centropus bengalensis (Gmelin, JF, 1788) 39
Violaceous coucal Centropus violaceus Quoy & Gaimard, 1832 40
Black-billed coucal Centropus bernsteini Schlegel, 1866 41
Kai coucal Centropus spilopterus Gray, GR, 1858 42
Pheasant coucal Centropus phasianinus (Latham, 1801) 43
Andaman coucal Centropus andamanensis Beavan, 1867 44
Bornean ground cuckoo Carpococcyx radiceus (Temminck, 1832) 45
Sumatran ground cuckoo Carpococcyx viridis Salvadori, 1879 46
Coral-billed ground cuckoo Carpococcyx renauldi Oustalet, 1896 47
Snail-eating coua Coua delalandei (Temminck, 1827) (E) 48
Crested coua Coua cristata (Linnaeus, 1766) 49
Verreaux's coua Coua verreauxi Grandidier, A, 1867 50
Blue coua Coua caerulea (Linnaeus, 1766) 51
Red-capped coua Coua ruficeps Gray, GR, 1846 52
Olive-capped coua Coua olivceiceps Sharpe, 1873 53
Red-fronted coua Coua reynaudii Pucheran, 1845 54
Coquerel's coua Coua coquereli Grandidier, A, 1867 55
Running coua Coua cursor Grandidier, A, 1867 56
Giant coua Coua gigas (Boddaert, 1783) 57
Red-breasted coua Coua serriana Pucheran, 1845 58
Raffles's malkoha Rhinortha chlorophaea (Raffles, 1822) 59
Blue malkoha Ceuthmochares aereus (Vieillot, 1817) 60
Green malkoha Ceuthmochares australis Sharpe, 1873 61
Sirkeer malkoha Taccocua leschenaultii Lesson, RP, 1830 62
Red-billed malkoha Zanclostomus javanicus (Horsfield, 1821) 63
Yellow-billed malkoha Rhamphococcyx calyorhynchus (Temminck, 1825) 64
Chestnut-breasted malkoha Phaenicophaeus curvirostris (Shaw, 1810) 65
Mentawai malkoha Phaenicophaeus oeneicaudus (Verreaux, J & Verreaux, É, 1855) 66
Red-faced malkoha Phaenicophaeus pyrrhocephalus (Pennant, 1769) 67
Chestnut-bellied malkoha Phaenicophaeus sumatranus (Raffles, 1822) 68
Blue-faced malkoha Phaenicophaeus viridirostris (Jerdon, 1840) 69
Black-bellied malkoha Phaenicophaeus diardi (Lesson, RP, 1830) 70
Green-billed malkoha Phaenicophaeus tristis (Lesson, RP, 1830) 71
Rough-crested malkoha Dasylophus superciliosus (Dumont, 1823) 72
Scale-feathered malkoha Dasylophus cumingi (Fraser, 1839) 73
Chestnut-winged cuckoo Clamator coromandus (Linnaeus, 1766) 74
Great spotted cuckoo Clamator glandarius (Linnaeus, 1758) 75
Levaillant's cuckoo Clamator levaillantii (Swainson, 1829) 76
Jacobin cuckoo Clamator jacobinus (Boddaert, 1783) 77
Little cuckoo Coccycua minuta (Vieillot, 1817) 78
Dwarf cuckoo Coccycua pumila (Strickland, 1852) 79
Ash-colored cuckoo Coccycua cinerea (Vieillot, 1817) 80
Squirrel cuckoo Piaya cayana (Linnaeus, 1766) 81
Black-bellied cuckoo Piaya melanogaster (Vieillot, 1817) 82
Dark-billed cuckoo Coccyzus melacoryphus Vieillot, 1817 83
Yellow-billed cuckoo Coccyzus americanus (Linnaeus, 1758) 84
Pearly-breasted cuckoo Coccyzus euleri Cabanis, 1873 85
Mangrove cuckoo Coccyzus minor (Gmelin, JF, 1788) 86
Cocos cuckoo Coccyzus ferrugineus Gould, 1843 87
Black-billed cuckoo Coccyzus erythropthalmus (Wilson, A, 1811) 88
Grey-capped cuckoo Coccyzus lansbergi Bonaparte, 1850 89
Chestnut-bellied cuckoo Coccyzus pluvialis (Gmelin, JF, 1788) 90
Bay-breasted cuckoo Coccyzus rufigularis Hartlaub, 1852 91
Jamaican lizard cuckoo Coccyzus vetula (Linnaeus, 1758) 92
Great lizard cuckoo Coccyzus merlini (d'Orbigny, 1839) 93
Puerto Rican lizard cuckoo Coccyzus vieilloti (Bonaparte, 1850) 94
Hispaniolan lizard cuckoo Coccyzus longirostris (Hermann, 1783) 95
Thick-billed cuckoo Pachycoccyx audeberti (Schlegel, 1879) 96
Dwarf koel Microdynamis parva (Salvadori, 1876) 97
Asian koel Eudynamys scolopaceus (Linnaeus, 1758) 98
Black-billed koel Eudynamys melanorhynchus Müller, S, 1843 99
Pacific koel Eudynamys orientalis (Linnaeus, 1766) 100
Pacific long-tailed cuckoo Urodynamis taitensis (Sparrman, 1787) 101
Channel-billed cuckoo Scythrops novaehollandiae Latham, 1790 102
Asian emerald cuckoo Chrysococcyx maculatus (Gmelin, JF, 1788) 103
Violet cuckoo Chrysococcyx xanthorhynchus (Horsfield, 1821) 104
Diederik cuckoo Chrysococcyx caprius (Boddaert, 1783) 105
Klaas's cuckoo Chrysococcyx klaas (Stephens, 1815) 106
Yellow-throated cuckoo Chrysococcyx flavigularis Shelley, 1880 107
African emerald cuckoo Chrysococcyx cupreus (Shaw, 1792) 108
Long-billed cuckoo Chalcites megarhynchus (Gray, GR, 1858) 109
Horsfield's bronze cuckoo Chalcites basalis (Horsfield, 1821) 110
Black-eared cuckoo Chalcites osculans (Gould, 1847) 111
Rufous-throated bronze cuckoo Chalcites ruficollis (Salvadori, 1876) 112
Shining bronze cuckoo Chalcites lucidus (Gmelin, JF, 1788) 113
White-eared bronze cuckoo Chalcites meyerii Salvadori, 1874 114
Little bronze cuckoo Chalcites minutillus Gould, 1859 115
Pied bronze cuckoo Chalcites crassirostris Salvadori, 1878 116
Pallid cuckoo Heteroscenes pallidus (Latham, 1801) 117
White-crowned cuckoo Caliechthrus leucolophus (Müller, S, 1840) 118
Chestnut-breasted cuckoo Cacomantis castaneiventris (Gould, 1867) 119
Fan-tailed cuckoo Cacomantis flabelliformis (Latham, 1801) 120
Banded bay cuckoo Cacomantis sonneratii (Latham, 1790) 121
Plaintive cuckoo Cacomantis merulinus (Scopoli, 1786) 122
Grey-bellied cuckoo Cacomantis passerinus (Vahl, 1797) 123
Sunda brush cuckoo Cacomantis sepulcralis (Müller, S, 1843) 124
Sulawesi brush cuckoo Cacomantis virescens (Brüggemann, 1876) 125
Sahul brush cuckoo Cacomantis variolosus (Vigors & Horsfield, 1827) 126
Manus brush cuckoo Cacomantis blandus (Rothschild & Hartert, 1914) 127
Solomons brush cuckoo Cacomantis addendus (Rothschild & Hartert, 1901) 128
Moluccan brush cuckoo Cacomantis aeruginosus Salvadori, 1878 129
Dusky long-tailed cuckoo Cercococcyx mechowi Cabanis, 1882 130
Olive long-tailed cuckoo Cercococcyx olivinus Sassi, 1912 131
Barred long-tailed cuckoo Cercococcyx montanus Chapin, 1928 132
Philippine drongo-cuckoo Surniculus velutinus Sharpe, 1877 133
Square-tailed drongo-cuckoo Surniculus lugubris (Horsfield, 1821) 134
Fork-tailed drongo-cuckoo Surniculus dicruroides (Hodgson, 1839) 135
Moluccan drongo-cuckoo Surniculus musschenbroeki Meyer, AB, 1878 136
Moustached hawk-cuckoo Hierococcyx vagans (Müller, S, 1845) 137
Large hawk-cuckoo Hierococcyx sparverioides (Vigors, 1832) 138
Dark hawk-cuckoo Hierococcyx bocki Wardlaw-Ramsay, RG, 1886 139
Common hawk-cuckoo Hierococcyx varius (Vahl, 1797) 140
Northern hawk-cuckoo Hierococcyx hyperythrus (Gould, 1856) 141
Philippine hawk-cuckoo Hierococcyx pectoralis Cabanis & Heine, 1863 142
Malaysian hawk-cuckoo Hierococcyx fugax (Horsfield, 1821) 143
Hodgson's hawk-cuckoo Hierococcyx nisicolor (Blyth, 1843) 144
Black cuckoo Cuculus clamosus Latham, 1801 145
Red-chested cuckoo Cuculus solitarius Stephens, 1815 146
Lesser cuckoo Cuculus poliocephalus Latham, 1790 147
Sulawesi cuckoo Cuculus crassirostris (Walden, 1872) 148
Indian cuckoo Cuculus micropterus Gould, 1838 149
Madagascar cuckoo Cuculus rochii Hartlaub, 1863 150
African cuckoo Cuculus gularis Stephens, 1815 151
Himalayan cuckoo Cuculus saturatus Blyth, 1843 152
Oriental cuckoo Cuculus optatus Gould, 1845 153
Sunda cuckoo Cuculus lepidus Müller, S, 1845 154
Common cuckoo Cuculus canorus Linnaeus, 1758 155
St. Helena cuckoo Nannococcyx psix Olson, 1975 (E) 156

References

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  1. ^ Gill, F.; Donsker, D.; Rasmussen, P. (August 2024). "Turacos, bustards, cuckoos, mesites, sandgrouse". IOC World Bird List. v 14.2. Retrieved August 20, 2024.