Large hawk-cuckoo
| Large hawk-cuckoo | |
|---|---|
 |
|
| 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 |
|
Cuculus sparverioides
The large hawk-cuckoo (Hierococcyx sparverioides) is a species of cuckoo in the Cuculidae family.
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. The subspecies H. s. bocki of the Malay Peninsula, Sumatra and Borneo is usually considered a separate species, the dark hawk-cuckoo.
Its natural habitats are temperate forests and subtropical or tropical mangrove forests.
They call in summer and the 
calling goes on well after dusk.
...
Wikipedia