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Green Malkoha

Ceuthmochares australis

Least Concern · IUCN Red List

LCLeast ConcernInvertebratesForestDomed nestMedium · 66 g
Green Malkoha (Ceuthmochares australis), photo 1
Photo: avocat · CC BY 4.0
Green Malkoha (Ceuthmochares australis), photo 2
Photo: avocat · CC BY 4.0
Green Malkoha (Ceuthmochares australis), photo 3
Photo: Shaun Swanepoel · CC BY 4.0
Green Malkoha (Ceuthmochares australis), photo 4
Photo: Shaun Swanepoel · CC BY 4.0
Green Malkoha (Ceuthmochares australis), photo 5
Photo: William Stephens · CC BY 4.0
Green Malkoha (Ceuthmochares australis), photo 6
Photo: William Stephens · CC BY 4.0
Green Malkoha (Ceuthmochares australis), photo 7
Photo: John Lyakurwa · CC BY 4.0
Green Malkoha (Ceuthmochares australis), photo 8
Photo: Jan Van Overvelt · CC BY 4.0
Green Malkoha (Ceuthmochares australis), photo 9
Photo: Shaun Swanepoel · CC BY 4.0
Green Malkoha (Ceuthmochares australis), photo 10
Photo: (c) Shaun Swanepoel, some rights reserved (CC BY) · CC-BY

When to see the Green Malkoha

One bar for each month. Filled bars are the 9 months with records; pale bars are months with none. The wide bar is October, the month with the most records.

Where to see the Green Malkoha

Regular range

The map shades 8 countries with regular records. Everything unshaded has no records. Countries are listed below the map.

South Africa Kenya Tanzania Mozambique Malawi Ethiopia Zimbabwe Zambia

About the Green Malkoha

The green malkoha or whistling yellowbill is a species of cuckoo in the family Cuculidae. This species and the blue malkoha were previously considered conspecific and together known as the yellowbill.

Text adapted from Wikipedia, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.

Easily confused with

Blue Malkoha (Ceuthmochares aereus) Blue MalkohaCeuthmochares aereusThe blue malkoha has a greyish belly, head and throat and a heavy yellow bill but subspecies display some differences in plumage colouration.

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