Fan-tailed Cuckoo: Male, head

Fan-tailed Cuckoo (Cacomantis flabelliformis)

Class:

Animals (Animalia) - Chordates (Chordata) - Birds (Aves)

Order:

Cuckoos (Cuculiformes)

Family:

Cuckoo (Cuculidae)

Species:

Fan-tailed Cuckoo (Cacomantis flabelliformis)

This Photo:

Male, head

General Species Information:
Found on Ellura (in the Murray Mallee, SA), the Adelaide Hills and elsewhere
The chestnut breast is more obvious than the fanned tail. Grey back and wings. Similar to Grey shrike-thrush from behind.
The eye ring is difficult to see.
Very pretty up close, plain from a distance.

This species is classed as

NT (Near Threatened)

in the Murray Mallee, SA, by DENR (Regional Species Status Assessments, July 2010)

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