Australian Fan-tailed Cuckoo
Female, profile
Ellura
Australian Fan-tailed Cuckoo
Female, flying
 
                      
Australian Fan-tailed Cuckoo (Cacomantis (Vidgenia) flabelliformis ssp flabelliformis)Class: Animals (Animalia) - Chordates (Chordata) - Birds (Aves)
Order: Cuckoos (Cuculiformes)
Family: Cuckoo (Cuculidae)     iNaturalist Observation
Species: Australian Fan-tailed Cuckoo (Cacomantis (Vidgenia) flabelliformis ssp flabelliformis)
This Photo:     Female, back

Thank you Alan Melville & (BLawson) for confirming the id of this species for us

General Species Information:
Found on Ellura (in the Murray Mallee, SA), the Adelaide Hills, the Flinders Ranges 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.

Copyright © 2014-2024 Brett & Marie Smith. All Rights Reserved. Photographed 08-May-2014
This species is classed as NT (Near Threatened) in the Murray Mallee, SA, by DENR (Regional Species Status Assessments, July 2010)