Cuckoos (Cuculidae)
Sumatran Ground-cuckoo (Carpococcyx viridis) - HBW 4, p. 578
French: Calobate de Sumatra
German: Sumatrakuckuck
Spanish: Cuco Terrestre de Sumatra
Other common names: Sunda/Green-billed/Malay Ground-cuckoo (with C. radiatus)
Taxonomy: Carpococcyx viridis Salvadori, 1879, Mount Singgalang, Sumatra.
Usually treated as conspecific with C. radiatus, but clearly smaller and shows distinct plumage differences from latter at all ages. Monotypic.
Distribution: SW Sumatra (foothills of Barisan Range).
- Critically Endangered
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