Long-tailed Cuckoo

The Long-tailed Cuckoo is a brood parasite, laying its eggs in the nests of Yellowheads, Whiteheads and Brown Creepers. The eggs hatch before those of the host do so and the young chicks eject the eggs of the host. Long-tail Cuckoo chicks are able to mimic the calls of their host's chicks.

The Long-tailed Cuckoo is classified as Least Concern. Does not qualify for a more at risk category. Widespread and abundant taxa are included in this category.

The Long-tailed Cuckoo is a brood parasite, laying its eggs in the nests of Yellowheads, Whiteheads and Brown Creepers. The eggs hatch before those of the host do so and the young chicks eject the eggs of the host. Long-tail Cuckoo chicks are able to mimic the calls of their host's chicks. References - * BirdLife International 2004. Eudynamys taitensis. 2006 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. More

Most Long-tailed Cuckoo over winter in the tropical Pacific and return to New Zealand in early October to breed in the same area year after year. A single creamy-white or very pale pink egg with brownish blotches is laid in the nest of either a Whitehead (N.I.) or a Yellowhead or Brown Creeper (S.I.) that is larger than the host More

long-tailed cuckoo (Urodynamis taitensis Sparrman). American Museum novitates 933 12 p. 4. ^ Ellis, D; Kepler, C; Kepler, A & K Teebaki (1990) "Occurrence of the Longtailed Cuckoo Eudynamis taitensis on Caroline Atoll, Kiribati". Emu 90 (3): 202 5. ^ Hockey P (2000) "Patterns and Correlates of Bird Migrations in Sub-Saharan Africa" Emu 100 (5): 401 - 417 doi:10. More

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Long-tailed cuckoos (Eudynamys taitensis) breed only in New Zealand, parasitising three song-birds (whitehead, yellowhead and brown creeper). After the most remarkable overwater migration of any land bird, they winter in a vast arc of Pacific islands extending 10,000 km from Palau in the west to Henderson Island (Pitcairn group) in the east. Such an epic migration by so small a bird was originally doubted. More

The long-tailed cuckoo (koekoeā), depicted in this lithograph by John Gerrard Keulemans, lays its eggs in the nests of whiteheads, yellowheads or brown creepers. The chicks quickly become larger than their adult hosts – who continue to feed them anyway. More

Long-tailed cuckoos or koekoeā (Eudynamys taitensis) breed only in New Zealand. They migrate mainly to islands east of Fiji, including French Polynesia, but also further west into Micronesia. Long-tailed cuckoos place their one creamy brown-blotched egg in the nest of another bird – in the North Island this is the whitehead, and in the South Island the brown creeper or yellowhead. Their call is harsher and louder than the shining cuckoo’s – several ascending wolf-whistles, then a chortle. More

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* Dusky Long-tailed Cuckoo (Cercococcyx mechowi) : Found in Angola, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Republic of the Congo, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Ivory Coast, Equatorial Guinea, Gabon, Ghana, Guinea, Liberia, Nigeria, Sierra Leone, Tanzania, Togo, and Uganda. More