Indian Cuckoo vs Red-chested Cuckoo

Indian Cuckoo

Cuculus micropterus

Medium89 gForest

This is a medium-sized cuckoo with both sexes alike. It has grey upperparts while the underside has broad black barring. The tail is barred with a broad subterminal dark band and a white tip. Young birds have white markings on the crown and white chin and throat contrasting with a dark face. Juveniles are browner and have broad white tips to the head and wing feathers. The eye-ring is gray to yellow (a feature shared with the common hawk-cuckoo). The iris is light brown to reddish.

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Recorded by Jairam Vijayan · Uncertain · Payyavoor, Kannur, Kerala, India · CC BY-SA 4.0

Photo: Sandeep Gangadharan · CC BY 2.0

Red-chested Cuckoo

Cuculus solitarius

Medium77 gForest

The red-chested cuckoo is a medium-size cuckoo about 31 cm (12.2 in) in length. The male has slate-grey upper parts, pale grey throat and sides of head and dark grey tail tipped with white. The breast is rufous or cinnamon, often with barring, and the belly is creamy-white or pale buff. The female is similar but the colour of the breast is duller and with variable amounts of barring.

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Recorded by paulo kivuyo · Call · Mto Wa Mbu, Karatu, Arusha Region, Tanzania · CC BY-SA 4.0

Photo: Alan Manson · CC BY 4.0

Photos and recordings are credited to their authors under the licence shown. Full profiles: Indian Cuckoo and Red-chested Cuckoo.