Showing posts with label Red-winged Crested Cuckoo. Show all posts
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Tuesday, December 4, 2018

CHESTNUT-WINGED CUCKOO

Photographed on Home Island, Cocos, December 2018
1263                 CHESTNUT-WINGED CUCKOO                  Clamator coromandus

AUSTRALIA                      760

Also known as Red-winged Crested Cuckoo. Found in southeastern Asia and parts of South Asia. Breed in Himalayas and migrate south in winter to Sri Lanka, southern India and tropical Southeast Asia including parts of Indonesia, Thailand and Philippines. 

NOTE: First record in Australia, and only photographs in Australia.