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Yellow-billed malkoha

The yellow-billed malkoha is a species of cuckoo in the family Cuculidae. It is endemic to Sulawesi, Indonesia. Its natural habitat is subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests.

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Yellow-billed malkoha
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves
Order: Cuculiformes
Family: Cuculidae
Genus: Rhamphococcyx
Cabanis & Heine, 1863
Species:
R. calyorhynchus
Binomial name
Rhamphococcyx calyorhynchus
(Temminck, 1825)
Synonyms

Phaenicophaeus calyorhynchus

The yellow-billed malkoha (Rhamphococcyx calyorhynchus) is a species of cuckoo in the family Cuculidae. It is endemic to Sulawesi, Indonesia. Its natural habitat is subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests.

It often follows moor macaques.2

References

References

  1. BirdLife International (2018). "Rhamphococcyx calyorhynchus". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2018 e.T22684113A130088909. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2018-2.RLTS.T22684113A130088909.en. Retrieved 12 November 2021.
  2. White, Clayton M. (October 2010). "Birds of Eastern North America: A Photographic Guide and Birds of Western North America: A Photographic GuideBirds of Eastern North America: A Photographic Guide.2009. Paul Sterry and Brian E. Small . Princeton University Press, Princeton, New Jersey. $18.95, paper, ISBN 978-0-691-13426-0; $45.00, cloth, ISBN 978-0-691-13425-3. 336 pages, 1118 color photographs, 405 maps.Birds of Western North America: A Photographic Guide.2009. Paul Sterry and Brian E. Small . Princeton University Press, Princeton, New Jersey. $18.95, paper, ISBN 978-0-691-13428-4; $45.00, cloth, ISBN 978-0-691-13427-7. 416 pages, 1314 color photographs, 443 maps". Western North American Naturalist. 70 (3): 421–422. doi:10.3398/064.070.0317. ISSN 1527-0904.