Asian Emerald Cuckoo

How to identify

Field marks

1. Male has iridescent dark green head and back
2. Male has white lower breast and green barring on the belly
3. Adult male has orange bare skin around the eye
4. Both sexes show a white band on the underwing in flight

Male, female and young

The female has a rusty-brown crown and nape and bronze-green upperparts; juvenile males lack the white lower breast and have denser barring.

Voice

Gives a “chweek” in flight, as well as various whistling twitters.

Where and when it's recorded

Asian Emerald Cuckoo has been recorded at 204 of the 8,171 birding hotspots we track, in 11 countries and regions.

Records by month Northern Hemisphere

Where it's recorded most

1. Doi Inthanon NPThailand228 records
2. Doi Inthanon NP – Mae Ouam (Km 34.5)Thailand146 records
3. Garbhanga Reserve ForestIndia145 records

Countries and regions with the most records

ThailandIndiaChinaSingaporeCambodiaVietnamBhutanMalaysia

eBird records via GBIF up to 2024-12-31. A record means someone listed it; more records partly mean more birders, not more birds.

About

The Asian emerald cuckoo (Chrysococcyx maculatus) is a species of cuckoo in the family Cuculidae. It is found in Bangladesh, Bhutan, Cambodia, China, India, Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, Myanmar, Nepal, Sri Lanka, Thailand, and Vietnam. Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests and subtropical or tropical moist montane forest.

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