Escolopa

Species fact sheet by Global Register of Migratory Species - www.groms.de

Eudynamys scolopacea

(Linnaeus, 1758)

Family: Cuculidae

Order: Cuculiformes

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Common koel

Indischer Koel

Coucou koel

Koel común

CMS NL

Redlist 2000 (Criteria) NL

CITES NL

(Europe: SPEC threat status )

Migration: partial

intercontinental

Eudynamys scolopacea

Resident or makes irregular movements. Resident in tropical areas, nomadic and local migrant in temperate N parts of range; partial migrant in Nepal. Race chinensis migrates to Borneo. In S Myanmar, abundant March-July and apparently absent Aug-Nov. Australian populations migratory, many leave after breeding season; cyanocephala spends austral winter in Indonesia, subcyanocephalus in New Guinea. In Andaman and Nicobar Is, populations are variable in plumage, females ranging from rufous-crowned to no rufous on head, which suggests repeated immigration of birds from both India and Malay Peninsula. Irregular in Taiwan; vagrant to Oman.
(del Hoyo J A Elliott; J Sargatal (eds) (1997) - www.hbw.com )

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