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| Cacomantis flabelliformes |
(Latham, 1801) |
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Family: Cuculidae |
Order: Cuculiformes |
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Fan-tailed cuckoo |
Coucou à éventail |
Cuco flabeliforme |
Fächerschwanzkuckuck |
| Migration: partial |
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mainly sedentary, intracontinental |
Resident in tropics, elsewhere partially migratory or nomadic. Tasmanian breeders move N to Australia.
Australian distribution is seasonal in some areas, indicating N and inland post-breeding movements; in
Queensland birds "wintering" N of breeding range are mainly immatures. Vagrant or passage migrant in interior
Australia. Race pyrrophanus occurs irregularly as migrant to E Solomon Is. (del Hoyo J, Elliott A,
Sargatal J (eds), 1997)
- digitised by GROMS, after del Hoyo J A Elliott; J Sargatal (eds) (1997) - www.hbw.com,
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| (Last update: 05.03.04 by E.Heuel) |