Klaas's Cuckoo
The cuckoos (Cuculidae) family includes the common or European cuckoo, roadrunners, koels, malkohas, couas, coucals and anis. The cuckoos are generally medium-sized slender birds. Most species live in trees, though a sizeable minority are ground-dwelling. The family has a cosmopolitan distribution, with the majority of species being tropical. Some species are migratory. The cuckoos feed on insects, insect larvae and a variety of other animals, as well as fruit. Some species are brood parasites, laying their eggs in the nests of other species, but the majority of species raise their own young.
I have split the birds photographed in its Genus where it belongs if there are at least 2 photographs. The genera with only 1 photograph are combined for now in Various
There are around 149 different species in this group of which I have photographed so far 47 different ones. In case of differences between male and female birds I have added both if available
Below you will find the genus in alphabetic order.
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Updated 14/03/2020
Genus Cacomantis. Cacomantis is a genus of cuckoo in the Cuculidae family. Most of them have a round nostril and are mainly in brown and gray colors. The tails are graduated and barred. The bars are transverse in sonneratii and oblique in all others. The genus contains 10 species
Cuckoos - Genus Cacomantis Banded_Bay_Cuckoo.jpg https://www.birdphotography.eu/images/Bird-Families/Cuckoos/Banded_Bay_Cuckoo.jpg Plaintive_Cuckoo_-_Cacomantis_merulinus.jpg Sulawesi_Brush_Cuckoo.jpg https://www.birdphotography.eu/images/Bird-Families/Cuckoos/Sulawesi_Brush_Cuckoo.jpg
Genus Centropus - Coucal. Unlike many Old World cuckoos, coucals are not brood parasites, though they do have their own reproductive peculiarity: all members of the genus are (to varying degrees) sex-role reversed so that the smaller male provides most of the parental care. The genus contains 30 species
Cuckoos - Genus Centropus Blue-headed_Coucal.jpg https://www.birdphotography.eu/images/Bird-Families/Cuckoos/Blue-headed_Coucal.jpg Burchells_Coucal.jpg https://www.birdphotography.eu/images/Bird-Families/Cuckoos/Burchells_Coucal.jpg Coppery-tailed_Coucal.jpg https://www.birdphotography.eu/images/Bird-Families/Cuckoos/Coppery-tailed_Coucal.jpg Greater_Coucal.jpg https://www.birdphotography.eu/images/Bird-Families/Cuckoos/Greater_Coucal.jpg Green-billed_Coucal.jpg https://www.birdphotography.eu/images/Bird-Families/Cuckoos/Green-billed_Coucal.jpg Lesser_Coucal.jpg https://www.birdphotography.eu/images/Bird-Families/Cuckoos/Lesser_Coucal.jpg Madagascar_Coucal.jpg https://www.birdphotography.eu/images/Bird-Families/Cuckoos/Madagascar_Coucal.jpg Senegal_Coucal.jpg https://www.birdphotography.eu/images/Bird-Families/Cuckoos/Senegal_Coucal.jpg White-browed_Coucal.jpg https://www.birdphotography.eu/images/Bird-Families/Cuckoos/White-browed_Coucal.jpg
Genus Chrysococcyx. Chrysococcyx is a genus of cuckoo in the Cuculidae family. The genus contains 13 species
Cuckoos - Genus Chrysococcyx African_Emerald_Cuckoo.jpg https://www.birdphotography.eu/images/Bird-Families/Cuckoos/African_Emerald_Cuckoo.jpg Diederik_Cuckoo.jpg https://www.birdphotography.eu/images/Bird-Families/Cuckoos/Diederik_Cuckoo.jpg Klaass_Cuckoo.jpg https://www.birdphotography.eu/images/Bird-Families/Cuckoos/Klaass_Cuckoo.jpg Little_Bronze_Cuckoo.jpg https://www.birdphotography.eu/images/Bird-Families/Cuckoos/Little_Bronze_Cuckoo.jpg Violet_Cuckoo_-_Chrysococcyx_xanthorhynchus.jpg
Genus Clamator. Clamator cuckoos are found in warmer parts of southern Europe and Asia, and in Africa south of the Sahara Desert. These are birds of warm open scrubby habitats, but some species are at least partially migratory, leaving for warmer and wetter areas in winter. The genus contains 4 species
Cuckoos - Clamator Great-spotted_Cuckoo.jpg https://www.birdphotography.eu/images/Bird-Families/Cuckoos/Great-spotted_Cuckoo.jpg Jacobin_Cuckoo.jpg https://www.birdphotography.eu/images/Bird-Families/Cuckoos/Jacobin_Cuckoo.jpg Levaillants_Cuckoo.jpg https://www.birdphotography.eu/images/Bird-Families/Cuckoos/Levaillants_Cuckoo.jpg
Genus Coua. Couas are large, mostly terrestrial birds of the cuckoo family, endemic to the island of Madagascar. The genus contains 9 species
Cuckoos - Coua Blue_Coua.jpg https://www.birdphotography.eu/images/Bird-Families/Cuckoos/Blue_Coua.jpg Coquerels_Coua.jpg https://www.birdphotography.eu/images/Bird-Families/Cuckoos/Coquerels_Coua.jpg Crested_Coua.jpg https://www.birdphotography.eu/images/Bird-Families/Cuckoos/Crested_Coua.jpg Giant_Coua.jpg https://www.birdphotography.eu/images/Bird-Families/Cuckoos/Giant_Coua.jpg Red-capped_Coua.jpg https://www.birdphotography.eu/images/Bird-Families/Cuckoos/Red-capped_Coua.jpg Running_Coua.jpg https://www.birdphotography.eu/images/Bird-Families/Cuckoos/Running_Coua.jpg
Genus Crotophaga - Ani. The Crotophaginae is a small subfamily, within the cuckoo family Cuculidae, of four gregarious bird species occurring in the Americas. They were previously classified as a family Crotophagidae.
The subfamily is notable for the development of cooperative breeding where several females lay eggs in a communal nest. It contains the three anis and the Guira cuckoo. The genus contains 4 species
Cuckoo - Genus Crotophaga Guira_Cuckoo.jpg https://www.birdphotography.eu/images/Bird-Families/Cuckoos/Guira_Cuckoo.jpg Greater_Ani.jpg https://www.birdphotography.eu/images/Bird-Families/Cuckoos/Greater_Ani.jpg Groove-billed_Ani.jpg https://www.birdphotography.eu/images/Bird-Families/Cuckoos/Groove-billed_Ani.jpg Smooth-billed_Ani.jpg https://www.birdphotography.eu/images/Bird-Families/Cuckoos/Smooth-billed_Ani.jpg
Genus Cuculus. Cuculus is a genus of cuckoos that has representatives in most of the Old World, although the greatest diversity is in tropical southern and southeastern Asia. The genus contains 11 species
Cuckoo - Genus Cuculus
Genus Eudynamys. The true koels, Eudynamys, are a genus of cuckoos from Asia, Australia, and the Pacific. They are large sexually dimorphic cuckoos that eat fruits and insects and have loud distinctive calls. They are brood parasites, laying their eggs in the nests of other species. The genus contains 3 species
Cuckoo - Genus Eudynamys
Genus Phaenicophaeus. Malkohas are large birds in the cuckoo family Cuculidae. The group name is derived from the Sinhala word for the red-faced malkoha; mal-koha meaning flower-cuckoo. These are all Asian tropical species. The genus contains 9 species
Cuckoo - Genus Phaenicophaeus Black-bellied_Malkoha.jpg https://www.birdphotography.eu/images/Bird-Families/Cuckoos/Black-bellied_Malkoha.jpg Blue-faced_Malkoha.jpg https://www.birdphotography.eu/images/Bird-Families/Cuckoos/Blue-faced_Malkoha.jpg Chestnut-breasted_Malkoha.jpg https://www.birdphotography.eu/images/Bird-Families/Cuckoos/Chestnut-breasted_Malkoha.jpg Green-billed_Malkoha.jpg https://www.birdphotography.eu/images/Bird-Families/Cuckoos/Green-billed_Malkoha.jpg Red-billed_Malkoha.jpg https://www.birdphotography.eu/images/Bird-Families/Cuckoos/Red-billed_Malkoha.jpg Red-faced_Malkoha.jpg https://www.birdphotography.eu/images/Bird-Families/Cuckoos/Red-faced_Malkoha.jpg Sulawesi_Malkoha.jpg https://www.birdphotography.eu/images/Bird-Families/Cuckoos/Sulawesi_Malkoha.jpg
Genus Various. All birds of this family with only one species photographed in a certain Genus
Cuckoo - Genus Various Dark-billed_Cuckoo.jpg https://www.birdphotography.eu/images/Bird-Families/Cuckoos/Dark-billed_Cuckoo.jpg Drongo_Cuckoo.jpg https://www.birdphotography.eu/images/Bird-Families/Cuckoos/Drongo_Cuckoo.jpg Little_Cuckoo.jpg https://www.birdphotography.eu/images/Bird-Families/Cuckoos/Little_Cuckoo.jpg Squirrel_Cuckoo.jpg https://www.birdphotography.eu/images/Bird-Families/Cuckoos/Squirrel_Cuckoo.jpg Striped_Cuckoo_.jpg https://www.birdphotography.eu/images/Bird-Families/Cuckoos/Striped_Cuckoo_.jpg