Cuckoos
Cuculidae
The cuckoos are a family of birds, Cuculidae, the sole taxon in the order Cuculiformes. The cuckoo family includes the common or European cuckoo, roadrunners, koels, malkohas, couas, coucals and anis. The coucals and anis are sometimes separated as distinct families, the Centropodidae and Crotophagidae respectively. The cuckoo order Cuculiformes is one of three that make up the Otidimorphae, the other two being the turacos and the bustards.
5 branches of this family, most-observed first · about 154 known species
Typical Cuckoos, Malkohas, and allies
subfamilyCuculinae
Anis and Guira Cuckoos
subfamilyCrotophaginae
New World Ground-Cuckoos
subfamilyNeomorphinae
Coucals
subfamilyCentropodinae
Couas and Old World Ground-Cuckoos
subfamilyCouinae
Where it lives
Recorded sightings
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geo-referenced records in GBIF, from museums, herbaria and field observers.
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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 1627.