Australian Fan-tailed Cuckoo Male, tail | Australian Fan-tailed Cuckoo Male, Singing, back | |||||
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: | Male, profile | ||||
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. | |||||
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