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PALLID CUCKOO FACTS |
Description
The Pallid Cuckoo is a large grey cuckoo. It has pale grey head with darker eye stripe and is pale grey on the underside. The male has plain grey back and the female has grey with white spotting. The wings and sides of the tail are dark grey with white spots. There are two forms - the dark rufous and the light rufous, one the main differences is that the dark rufous females have buff colour around the neck and grey streaking on throat, chest and belly. Juveniles are strongly spotted and checkered dark grey and white.
Size
30 cm
Habitat
found in a variety oh habitats throughout the continent including woodland, shrubland, mangroves, farmland, parks and gardens
Food
insects and caterpillars
Breeding
nests in cup shaped nests of other species such as honeyeaters, robins
Range
The Pallid Cuckoo is found throughout Australia in all states
Credits:
Map is from Atlas of Living Australia website at https://biocache.ala.org.au licensed under Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License.
Classification
| Class: | Aves | | Order: | Cuculiformes | | Family: | Cuculidae | | Genus: | Cuculus | | Species: | pallidus | | Common Name: | Pallid Cuckoo |
Relatives in same Genus
Oriental Cuckoo (C. optatus)
Fan-tailed Cuckoo (C. pyrrhophanus)
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