Pallid Cuckoo: Male, Front

Class:

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

Order:

Cuckoos (Cuculiformes)

Family:

Cuckoo (Cuculidae) iNaturalist Observation

Species:

Pallid Cuckoo (Heteroscenes pallidus)

This Photo:

Male, Front

Synonym:

Cacomantis pallidus

Thank you Alan Melville for confirming the id of this species for us

General Species Information:
Found on Ellura (in the Murray Mallee, SA), the Flinders Ranges and elsewhere
When we first spotted this on Ellura we weren't sure what it was. Having only recently discovered a Black-eared cuckoo it looked very similar, but way too big.
It has a dark striped through the eye and no barring on the breast. Grey / brown back and a similar tail to the Fan-tail cuckoo.
Males are grey, with no barring. Females are rufous and can be barred. We suspect she'll look like a completely different species.

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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