Chestnut-winged Cuckoo
Clamator coromandus
- Least concern
- Card rarity: Common
- Birds
The chestnut-winged cuckoo or red-winged crested cuckoo is a cuckoo found in Southeast Asia and parts of South Asia. It has dark glossy upperparts, a black head with long crest chestnut wings, a long graduated glossy black tail, rufous throat dusky underside and a narrow white nuchal half collar. 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. It is about 47 cm (19 in) long.
Classification
- Class
- Aves
- Order
- Cuculiformes
- Family
- Cuculidae
- Genus
- Clamator