Sunda Brush Cuckoo (Cacomantis sepulcralis) | Photos and ID

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Sunda Brush Cuckoo (Cacomantis sepulcralis), photo 1 — Photo: (c) Ian Dugdale, some rights reserved (CC BY) · CC-BY

Sunda Brush Cuckoo (Cacomantis sepulcralis), photo 2 — Photo: (c) Jason Alexander, some rights reserved (CC BY) · CC-BY

Sunda Brush Cuckoo (Cacomantis sepulcralis), photo 3 — Photo: (c) Ian Dugdale, some rights reserved (CC BY) · CC-BY

Sunda Brush Cuckoo (Cacomantis sepulcralis), photo 4 — Photo: (c) Ian Dugdale, some rights reserved (CC BY) · CC-BY

Sunda Brush Cuckoo (Cacomantis sepulcralis), photo 5 — Photo: (c) Jan Ebr & Ivana Ebrová, some rights reserved (CC BY) · CC-BY

Sunda Brush Cuckoo (Cacomantis sepulcralis), photo 6 — Photo: (c) dhfischer, some rights reserved (CC BY) · CC-BY

Sunda Brush Cuckoo (Cacomantis sepulcralis), photo 7 — Photo: (c) Forest Botial-Jarvis, some rights reserved (CC BY) · CC-BY

Sunda Brush Cuckoo (Cacomantis sepulcralis), photo 8 — Photo: (c) Forest Botial-Jarvis, some rights reserved (CC BY) · CC-BY

Sunda Brush Cuckoo (Cacomantis sepulcralis), photo 9 — Photo: (c) Pauline Carmel Joy Eje, some rights reserved (CC BY) · CC-BY

Sunda Brush Cuckoo (Cacomantis sepulcralis), photo 10 — Photo: (c) Legawa, Everest C., some rights reserved (CC BY) · CC-BY

When to see the Sunda Brush Cuckoo

One bar for each month. Filled bars are the 11 months with records; pale bars are months with none. The wide bar is March, the month with the most records.

Where to see the Sunda Brush Cuckoo

Regular rangeRare visitor

The map shades 6 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.

Philippines Indonesia Malaysia Singapore Thailand Papua New Guinea

Recorded as a rare visitor in ZZ.

About the Sunda Brush Cuckoo

The Sunda brush cuckoo is a species of cuckoo in the family Cuculidae. It is found in Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines, Singapore, and Thailand. Its natural habitat is subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests. It was formerly treated as conspecific with the Sulawesi brush cuckoo with the English name "rusty-breasted cuckoo".

Text adapted from Wikipedia, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.

Easily confused with

Sulawesi Brush CuckooCacomantis virescensThe Sulawesi brush cuckoo is a species of cuckoo in the family Cuculidae. Manus Brush CuckooCacomantis blandusThe Manus brush cuckoo is a species of cuckoo in the family Cuculidae. Solomons Brush CuckooCacomantis addendusThe Solomons brush cuckoo is a species of cuckoo in the family Cuculidae.

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