Scale-feathered Malkoha (Dasylophus cumingi) | Photos and ID

LCLeast ConcernEndemicInvertebrates

Forest171 g

Scale-feathered Malkoha (Dasylophus cumingi), photo 2 — Photo: (c) Pauline Carmel Joy Eje, some rights reserved (CC BY) · CC-BY

Scale-feathered Malkoha (Dasylophus cumingi), photo 3 — Photo: (c) Forest Botial-Jarvis, some rights reserved (CC BY) · CC-BY

Scale-feathered Malkoha (Dasylophus cumingi), photo 4 — Photo: (c) Forest Botial-Jarvis, some rights reserved (CC BY) · CC-BY

Scale-feathered Malkoha (Dasylophus cumingi), photo 5 — Photo: (c) Forest Botial-Jarvis, some rights reserved (CC BY) · CC-BY

Scale-feathered Malkoha (Dasylophus cumingi), photo 6 — Photo: (c) Forest Botial-Jarvis, some rights reserved (CC BY) · CC-BY

Scale-feathered Malkoha (Dasylophus cumingi), photo 7 — Photo: (c) Forest Botial-Jarvis, some rights reserved (CC BY) · CC-BY

Scale-feathered Malkoha (Dasylophus cumingi), photo 8 — Photo: (c) Forest Botial-Jarvis, some rights reserved (CC BY) · CC-BY

Scale-feathered Malkoha (Dasylophus cumingi), photo 9 — Photo: (c) Forest Botial-Jarvis, some rights reserved (CC BY) · CC-BY

Scale-feathered Malkoha (Dasylophus cumingi), photo 10 — Photo: (c) Forest Botial-Jarvis, some rights reserved (CC BY) · CC-BY

When to see the Scale-feathered Malkoha

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 Scale-feathered Malkoha

Regular range

The map shades 1 country with regular records. Everything unshaded has no records. Countries are listed below the map.

Philippines

About the Scale-feathered Malkoha

The scale-feathered malkoha is a species of cuckoo in the family Cuculidae. It is a spectacular looking bird with its white hood, red eyes and yellowish bill with a line of scaled feathers down from the bill and up over the crown, contrasted with rufous neck and back and a black lower body and tail. It is endemic to the Philippines found only in the islands of Luzon, Catanduanes and Marinduque. The species was named after the collector Hugh Cuming.

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Easily confused with

Rough-crested MalkohaDasylophus superciliosusThe rough-crested malkoha is a species of cuckoo in the family Cuculidae.

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