Chestnut-winged Cuckoo

How to identify

Field marks

1. Head black, with a long crest showing a metallic gloss
2. Wings chestnut
3. Narrow white half-collar across the nape
4. Long tail; central tail feathers longer than outer tail feathers

Male, female and young

Juveniles are duller, with scaling on the wing feathers.

Voice

Two flute-like notes, repeated at short intervals.

Similar species

Jacobin Cuckoo

Chestnut-winged Cuckoo has less conspicuous white feather edges at the tips of the tail feathers; Jacobin Cuckoo has a more prominent white tail tip.

Where and when it's recorded

Chestnut-winged Cuckoo has been recorded at 529 of the 8,171 birding hotspots we track, in 18 countries and regions.

Records by month Northern Hemisphere

Where it's recorded most

1. Man Nai IslandThailand288 records
2. Mahidol University [Kanchanaburi Campus]Thailand153 records
3. IIT MadrasIndia145 records

Countries and regions with the most records

ChinaThailandSingaporeIndiaMalaysiaCambodiaVietnamSri Lanka

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 chestnut-winged cuckoo or red-winged crested cuckoo (Clamator coromandus) is a cuckoo found in Southeast Asia and parts of South Asia. They breed along the Himalayas and migrate south in winter to Sri Lanka, southern India and tropical Southeast Asia including parts of Indonesia, Thailand and the Philippines.

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