Fan-tailed Cuckoo
Female, front
Fan-tailed Cuckoo
Female, back
| Fan-tailed Cuckoo Female, front | | Fan-tailed Cuckoo Female, back | | ||
 | Class: | Animals (Animalia) - Chordates (Chordata) - Birds (Aves) | |||
| Order: | Cuckoos (Cuculiformes) | ||||
| Family: | Cuckoo (Cuculidae) iNaturalist Observation | ||||
| Species: | Fan-tailed Cuckoo (Cacomantis flabelliformis) | ||||
| This Photo: | 🔍Female, 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 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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