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What the Banded Bay Cuckoo sounds like
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The adults are bright rufous or bay on the head and back and are broadly barred with dark brown. The bill is long and slightly curved. A whitish supercilium is distinctive above a dark eye-line. The wing is darker and tail is graduated with a dark brown centre. The tail has a subterminal black band and white tips to the feathers. The sexes are alike. The iris is yellow and the bill is black while the base of the lower mandible is greenish grey. The tarsi are grey. The juvenile is similar but has a pale lower mandible and white fringes to the feathers of the upper body.
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When to see the Banded Bay Cuckoo
One bar for each month. Filled bars are the 10 months with records; pale bars are months with none. The wide bar is February, the month with the most records.
Where to see the Banded Bay Cuckoo
The map shades 16 countries with regular records. Everything unshaded has no records. Countries are listed below the map.
About the Banded Bay Cuckoo
The banded bay cuckoo or bay-banded cuckoo is a species of small cuckoo found in the Indian subcontinent and Southeast Asia. Like others in the genus they have round nostrils. They are usually founded in well-wooded areas mainly in the lower hills. Males sing from exposed branches during the breeding season, which can vary with region. They are distinctive both in their calls as well as plumage with a white eyebrowed appearance and the rufous upperparts with regular dark bands and the whitish underside with fine striations.
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Easily confused with
Grey-bellied CuckooCacomantis passerinusThe grey-bellied cuckoo is one of the smaller cuckoos, at a total length of about 23 cm.
Chestnut-breasted CuckooCacomantis castaneiventrisThe chestnut-breasted cuckoo is about 22–25 centimetres (8.7–9.8 in) long.
Moluccan Brush CuckooCacomantis aeruginosusThe Moluccan brush cuckoo, formerly known as the Moluccan cuckoo, is a species of cuckoo in the family Cuculidae.
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