#Cuculiformes

[herpsandbirds]

Diederik Cuckoo (Chrysococcyx caprius), family Cuculidae, order Cuculiformes, South Africa

Photograph by Johan Frost

[awkwardbirdsdreaming]

Bird #48 - the pied cuckoo (LC)

Also known as the Jacobin cuckoo or the pied crested cuckoo. You can see them in sub-Saharan Africa, Saudi Arabia or India. These birds are brood parasites, which cuckoos are of course famous for! In Africa, males have been seen distracting the hosts while the female sneaks in.

To get their eggs into a host's nest, they have to be super fast; Females just drop the egg in while perched on the rim of the nest. They don't even bother with sitting down! The cuckoo egg sometimes drops onto and cracks a host's egg, so I guess it benefits the cuckoos to just chuck it in like that.

[snototter]

A greater roadrunner (Geococcyx californianus) does a great run across a road in the USA

by Wendy Miller

[birdblues]

Rufous-vented Ground Cuckoo

[spinus-pinus]

Groove-billed Ani Crotophaga sulcirostris

7/27/2023 Guanacaste, Costa Rica

[fullfrontalbirds]

Smooth-billed Ani (Crotophaga ani)

© Daysy Vera Castro

[haveyouseenthisbirdpoll]

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[alonglistofbirds]

[2690/11080] Coquerel's coua - Coua coquereli

Order: Cuculiformes (cuckoos) Family: Cuculidae Genus: Coua (couas)

Photo credit: Tomáš Grim via Macaulay Library

[birding-with-tortoise]

Greater Coucal or Crow Pheasant (Centropus sinensis)

Sighted in Tirupati, Andhra Pradesh, India

[taxonomytournament]

Taxonomy Tournament: Birds

Strisores. This clade is made up of various small birds, such as swifts, hummingbirds, and nightjars.

Cuculiformes. This order is made up of cukoos, including roadrunners.

[auntie-birdie]

Smooth-billed Ani (Crotophaga ani)

© Marky Mutchler

[herpsandbirds]

Pheasant Coucal (Centropus phasianinus), EAT A TASTY BUG!!!, family Cuculidae, order Cuculiformes, QLD, Australia

photograph by Andrew Mason

[awkwardbirdsdreaming]

Bird #24 - the diederik cuckoo (LC)

Adult female plumage.

Also known as the didric or dideric cuckoo; named after the male's loud territorial call that consists of a few long repeated 'dee's followed by a quick 'derik'. This cuckoo lives throughout sub-Saharan Africa, but also further north in the Arabian peninsula. Females and juveniles have this shiny coppery colour, but males are more of a glossy forest green with some blue and copper hints.

[snototter]

Guira cuckoos (Guira guira) in Brazil's Pantanal

by Gregory "Slobirdr" Smith

[birdblues]

Greater Roadrunner

[spinus-pinus]

Groove-billed Ani Crotophaga sulcirostris

7/27/2023 Guanacaste, Costa Rica