Scaled Ground Cuckoo

The scaled ground cuckoo is about 43 cm (17 in) long, about half of which is its tail, and weighs about 340 g (12 oz). Adults have a heavy decurved bill that is greenish with a bluish dusky base and a yellowish tip. The sexes have similar plumage. Adults have a brownish forehead and crown and a shaggy, glossy, blue-black, erectile crest. Most of the face is cinnamon buff but with bright cobalt blue bare skin behind the eye. Their hindneck and upper back are bronzy olive brown, the lower back bronzy brown to purplish, and the rump and uppertail coverts deep purplish brown with a bronze gloss.