Square-tailed Drongo-Cuckoo

What the Square-tailed Drongo-Cuckoo sounds like

Recorded by Christoporus Merung · Song · Rungan, Gunung MAS Regency, Central Kalimantan, Indonesia · CC0 · via xeno-canto

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When to see the Square-tailed Drongo-Cuckoo

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

Where to see the Square-tailed Drongo-Cuckoo

The map shades 17 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 Taiwan.

About the Square-tailed Drongo-Cuckoo

The square-tailed drongo-cuckoo is a species of cuckoo that resembles a black drongo. It is found along the Himalayas extending east into Southeast Asia. The calls are series of piercing sharp whistles rising in pitch but shrill and choppily delivered. In the past, the species S. lugubris also included the subspecies dicruroides, which is now treated as a separate species, the fork-tailed drongo-cuckoo.

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Easily confused with

Philippine Drongo-CuckooSurniculus velutinusThe Philippine drongo-cuckoo is a bird of the cuckoo family found only in the Philippines. Moluccan Drongo-CuckooSurniculus musschenbroekiThe Moluccan drongo-cuckoo is a species of cuckoo. Fork-tailed Drongo-CuckooSurniculus dicruroidesDrongo cuckoos are recognisable by their glossy blue to purple or greenish black plumage, their forked tail with slight narrow white bars, their white patch at the base of the feathers and their thin horizontal white stripe in the underwing that is only seen when in flight.