Species profile
Channel-Billed Cuckoo
Scythrops novaehollandiae
Quick answer
Range Biak, Yapen. Status Austral migrant. On mainland New Guinea this species is also a local breeder. No specimens from Biak, but regularly heard and seen since c. 1995. Its status on Biak, as on mainland New Guinea, is unclear. However, on 30 August 2015 KDB saw five being chased persistently by a Torresian Crow Corvus orru in selectively logged forest on the north coast of Biak.
- Scientific name
- Scythrops novaehollandiae
- Family
- Cuculidae
- Order
- Cuculiformes
- Genus
- Scythrops
- Conservation status
- Least Concern
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Related species in Cuculidae
- African Cuckoo (Cuculus gularis)
- African Emerald Cuckoo (Chrysococcyx cupreus)
- Andaman Coucal (Centropus andamanensis)
- Asian Emerald Cuckoo (Chrysococcyx maculatus)
- Banded Bay Cuckoo (Cacomantis sonneratii)
- Banded Ground-cuckoo (Neomorphus radiolosus)
- Barred Long-tailed Cuckoo (Cercococcyx montanus)
- Bay Coucal (Centropus celebensis)