Cuckoos (Cuculidae)
Blue-faced Malkoha (Phaenicophaeus viridirostris) - HBW 4, p. 574
French: Malcoha à bec vert
German: Kleiner Grünschnabelkuckuck
Spanish: Malcoha Cariazul
Other common names: Lesser Green-billed/Small Green-billed Malkoha
Taxonomy: Zanclostomus viridirostris Jerdon, 1840, bottom of the Coonoor Pass, India.
Sometimes combined with P. diardi, P. sumatranus and P. tristis in a separate genus Rhopodytes. Monotypic.
Distribution: Peninsular India from about NW Maharashtra and C Orissa S to Sri Lanka.
- Least Concern Enlarge map
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A bird on the ground, laying with its wings opened. Locality Tissamaharama, Southern Province, Sri Lanka (Monotypic species)
Eldert Groenewoud 28 October 2008 2 years ago 23 sec 3.5 -
A bird in a bush and changing to a wood post. Locality Tissamaharama, Southern Province, Sri Lanka (Monotypic species)
Eldert Groenewoud 28 October 2008 2 years ago 43 sec 3.5 -
A bird coming to the ground, in order to forage in the dry grass. Locality Udawalawa National Park, Sri Lanka (Monotypic species)
Pieter de Groot Boersma 1 July 2007 2 years ago 20 sec 3 -
A dead bird in a roadside. Locality Mudumalai National Park, India (Monotypic species)
Josep del Hoyo 8 December 2009 1 year ago 29 sec 2.2
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on branch
Locality Bangalore Rural, Karnataka, India (ssp Phaenicophaeus viridirostris)
Dayananda 14 January 2012 3 weeks ago ADDED LAST MONTH 3.8 -
A bird in profile
Locality Pegumbuhalla, The Nilgiris District, Tamil Nadu, India (Monotypic species)
vasanthan.p.j 17 September 2011 20 weeks ago 3.7 -
A bird perched in the open
Locality Coimbatore District, Tamil Nadu, India (Monotypic species)
vasanthan.p.j 21 August 2010 1 year ago 3.4 -
A bird perched on a neem tree
Locality Bhavani Sagar, Erode District, Tamil Nadu, India (Monotypic species)
vasanthan.p.j 14 August 2010 1 year ago 3.4 -
A bird perched on a neem tree
Locality Bhavani Sagar, Erode District, Tamil Nadu, India (Monotypic species)
vasanthan.p.j 14 August 2010 1 year ago 3.3 -
Headshot of an adult.
Locality Sigiriya, Central Province, Sri Lanka (Monotypic species)
Steve Garvie 7 August 2009 2 years ago 3.3
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