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SpeciesCuculiformesCuculidae
Birds

🐦Greater Coucal

Centropus sinensis (Stephens, 1815)

El cucal chino (Centropus sinensis)​ es una especie de ave cuculiforme de la familia Cuculidae que vive en Asia. Está ampliamente extendido desde la India hasta el sur de China e Indonesia. Se divide en varias subespecies, y algunas de ellas son consideradas especies aparte por algunos. Es un ave de tamaño considerable de color negro, con alas castañas y larga cola. Se encuentra en una gran variedad de hábitats desde la jungla hasta los campos de cultivo y los jardines. No vuela ágilmente y a menudo se le observa trepando y andando por el suelo buscando insectos, huevos y polluelos de otras aves para alimentarse. Tienen un característico canto resonante que se asocial con los augurios en muchas partes de su área de distribución.

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Measurements
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vs you
≈ 1/220th of your weight
Conservation status
LCLeast concern

IUCN Red List assessment, 2024.

Population trendStable
Key measurements
Body mass
0.28 kg
Body length
not recorded
Shoulder height
not recorded
Top speed
not recorded
Bite force
not recorded
Maximum lifespan
not recorded
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Facts and figures

Everything we know about the Greater Coucal

Typical adult figures. Where a value is an estimate rather than a measurement, it says so.

Body mass
0.28 kg
AVONET
Other figures ↓

Source: AVONET · v1.1 (Tobias et al. 2022) · CC BY 4.0

By sex

  • Female319 kgWikidataQ767112
  • Male247 kgWikidataQ767112
Tail length
0.26 m
AVONET
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Source: AVONET · v1.1 (Tobias et al. 2022) · CC BY 4.0

Wing length
0.21 m
AVONET
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Source: AVONET · v1.1 (Tobias et al. 2022) · CC BY 4.0

Beak length
0.05 m
AVONET
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Source: AVONET · v1.1 (Tobias et al. 2022) · CC BY 4.0

Tarsus length
0.06 m
AVONET
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Source: AVONET · v1.1 (Tobias et al. 2022) · CC BY 4.0

Trophic level
Carnivore
AVONET
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Source: AVONET · v1.1 (Tobias et al. 2022) · CC BY 4.0

Habitat
Woodland
AVONET
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Source: AVONET · v1.1 (Tobias et al. 2022) · CC BY 4.0

Lifestyle
Terrestrial
AVONET
Details ↓

Source: AVONET · v1.1 (Tobias et al. 2022) · CC BY 4.0

Volume l
0.3 Laverage
Details ↓

Body mass at ~1.0 kg/L, the density of vertebrate tissue.

average = a mean across sexes or species in a group.

Not recorded for Greater Coucal yet: body length, shoulder height, top speed, bite force, maximum lifespan.

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Family tree

  1. kingdomAnimalia
  2. ›phylumChordata
  3. ›classAves
  4. ›orderCuculiformes
  5. ›familyCuculidae
  6. ›genusCentropus
  7. ›speciesCentropus sinensis
Full lineage
  1. classBirds · Aves
  2. orderCuculiformes
  3. familyCentropidae
  4. genusCentropus
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  1. kingdomMetazoa
  2. phylumChordata
  3. subphylumCraniata
  4. subphylumVertebrata
  5. superclassGnathostomata
  6. superclassSarcopterygii
  7. superclassTetrapoda
  8. orderSauria
  9. classBirds · Aves
  10. orderCuculiformes
  11. familyCentropidae
  12. genusCentropus
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In other languages
Centropus sinensis (ca), kukačka vraní (cs), Brunrygget Sporegøg (da), Heckenkuckuck (de), Centropus sinensis (es), aasiankukaali (fi) … and 22 more languages

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