Short-toed Coucal

When to see the Short-toed Coucal

One bar for each month. Filled bars are the 10 months with records; pale bars are months with none. The wide bar is June, the month with the most records.

Where to see the Short-toed Coucal

The map shades 2 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 Thailand.

About the Short-toed Coucal

The short-toed coucal is a species of cuckoo in the family Cuculidae. It is found in Brunei, Indonesia, Malaysia, and Thailand. Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist lowland forest and subtropical or tropical moist shrubland. It is threatened by habitat loss.

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Easily confused with

Gabon CoucalCentropus anselliThe Gabon coucal is a large-sized species growing to 46 to 58 cm (18 to 23 in) in length. White-necked CoucalCentropus ateralbusThe white-necked coucal or pied coucal is a species of cuckoo in the family Cuculidae. Violaceous CoucalCentropus violaceusThe violaceous coucal or violet coucal is a cuckoo species in the family Cuculidae.