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What the Grey-bellied Cuckoo sounds like
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The grey-bellied cuckoo is one of the smaller cuckoos, at a total length of about 23 cm. Adults are mainly grey with a white lower belly and undertail. There is a white patch on the wings. Some females are dark-barred reddish brown above with an unbarred tail and have strongly dark-barred whitish underparts. The juvenile resembles the female but is of a duller grey.
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When to see the Grey-bellied Cuckoo
One bar for each month, and every month is filled: this bird is recorded here in all twelve. The wide bar is June, the month with the most records.
Where to see the Grey-bellied Cuckoo
The map shades 7 countries with regular records, and 1 more in a lighter tone where the bird turns up only as a stray. Everything unshaded has no records. Countries are listed below the map.
Recorded as a rare visitor in United Arab Emirates.
About the Grey-bellied Cuckoo
The grey-bellied cuckoo or the Indian plaintive cuckoo is a cuckoo with widespread occurrence throughout Asia.
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Easily confused with
Banded Bay CuckooCacomantis sonneratiiThe adults are bright rufous or bay on the head and back and are broadly barred with dark brown.
Plaintive CuckooCacomantis merulinusThe plaintive cuckoo is fairly small, measuring about 21–24 cm (8.3–9.4 in) long.
Sahul Brush CuckooCacomantis variolosusThe Sahul brush cuckoo is about 22–26 cm (8.7–10.2 in) long.
Side by side: Fan-tailed Cuckoo vs Grey-bellied Cuckoo · Grey-bellied Cuckoo vs Sahul Brush Cuckoo · Grey-bellied Cuckoo vs Plaintive Cuckoo · Banded Bay Cuckoo vs Grey-bellied Cuckoo
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