Cuckoos (Cuculidae)
Large Hawk-Cuckoo (Cuculus sparverioides) - HBW 4, p. 549
French: Coucou épervier
German: Sperberkuckuck
Spanish: Cuco Grande
Other common names: Brain-fever Bird
Taxonomy: Cuculus sparverioïdes Vigors, 1832, Himalayas.
Often placed in genus Hierococcyx, along with other hawk-cuckoos, on grounds of notable morphological differences from Cuculus. Two subspecies recognized.
Subspecies and Distribution:
- sparverioides Vigors, 1832 - Himalayas from N Pakistan and India to Nepal, Naga Hills and Manipur, whence E to China (Sichuan and lower Yangtze valley), and S to Myanmar, Thailand and Indochina; winters mainly from Bangladesh and Thailand S to S & E India and Greater Sundas, and E to Philippines.
- bocki (R. G. W. Ramsay, 1886) - mountains of Malaysia, Sumatra and Borneo.
- Least Concern Enlarge map
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A bird perched on a dead tree, calling Locality Tarkeghyang, Helambu, Nepal (ssp sparverioides)
Keith Blomerley 10 May 2004 5 years ago 22 sec 3.1 -
An adult bird perched on a small shrub beside a road Locality Digboi, Tinsukia District, Assam, India (ssp sparverioides)
Ron Hoff 20 February 2008 3 years ago 26 sec 2.9
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Perching for more than 10 secs on this tree
Locality Mount Kinabalu National Park, Sabah (Malaysia), Borneo (Monotypic species)
Jonathan Soon 6 February 2011 42 weeks ago 3.8 -
A juvenile Large Hawk-Cuckoo, classed as "Vagrant" in Singapore and rarely seen here
Locality Pasir Ris Park, Singapore
Howard Banwell 19 January 2011 1 year ago 3.7 -
A bird perched
Locality Deothang, Samdrup Jongkhar District, Bhutan (ssp sparverioides)
Arthur Grosset 10 April 2008 2 years ago 3.5 -
Bird to sale
Locality Banaue, Ifugao Province, Luzon, Philippines
Guy Poisson 4 April 2008 1 year ago 3
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