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Birds

Plaintive
Cuckoo

Least Concern

Stable

Plaintive Cuckoo

Cacomantis merulinus

A small and slender cuckoo. Adult male and typical (non-hepatic) female show orange belly, gray head, and brown back and tail. Hepatic, or rufous-morph, individuals are rusty brown above and white below, with black barring all over the body.

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Taxanomy

CUCULIFORMES
CUCULIDAE
Cacomantis merulinus

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