Buff-headed coucal
| Buff-headed coucal | |
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Aves |
| Order: | Cuculiformes
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| Family: | Cuculidae |
| Genus: | Centropus |
| Species: | C. milo
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| Binomial name | |
| Centropus milo Gould, 1856
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| Global range (In red) | |
The buff-headed coucal (Centropus milo) is a
Cuculidae) but seem to warrant recognition as a distinct family. C. milo is a common endemic of the central islands of the Solomon Islands. Its natural habitat is tropical moist lowland and mountain forests
, mostly in primary and secondary growth.
This species is a large cuckoo with a heavy bill and short wings. In total length, this species may measure 60 to 69 cm (24 to 27 in). With a body mass of 769 g (1.695 lb), this may be not only the largest coucal, apparently outweighing other very large coucals like the
allopatric pheasant coucal
, and the rest of the plumage brown mottled with black. The iris is brown-grey and the bill is bicolored, brown above and pale horn below.
In local languages, the adult and juvenile are treated as different kinds of bird and each has a name of its own. For example, in Touo, Roviana and Marovo, the adult is called mozu, nao and ao, respectively, while the names for the juveniles are sagaza, sengenge and chehohu.[4]
Footnotes
- . Retrieved 13 November 2021.
- ^ Payne, R. B. (2020). Buff-headed Coucal (Centropus milo), version 1.0. In Birds of the World (J. del Hoyo, A. Elliott, J. Sargatal, D. A. Christie, and E. de Juana, Editors). Cornell Lab of Ornithology, Ithaca, NY, USA.
- ISBN 978-1-4200-6444-5.
- ^ Read & Moseby (2006)
References
- Doughty, Chris; Day, Nicolas & Plant, Andrew (1999): Birds of the Solomons, Vanuatu and New Caledonia. ISBN 0-7136-4690-X
- Read, John L. & Moseby, Katherine (2006): Vertebrates of Tetepare Island, Solomon Islands. Pacific Science 60(1): 69–79. DOI: 10.2984/1534-6188(2006)60[69:VOTISI]2.0.CO;2 HTML abstract