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Asian koel🐦

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SpeciesCuculiformesCuculidae
Birds

🐦Asian Koel

Eudynamys scolopaceus (Linnaeus, 1758)

Asiatisk koel (Eudynamys scolopaceus) är en asiatisk fågel i familjen gökar inom ordningen gökfåglar.

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≈ 1/320th of your weight
Also called
Common Koel, Western Koel
Conservation status
LCLeast concern

IUCN Red List assessment, 2025.

Population trendStable
Key measurements
Body mass
0.19 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 Asian Koel

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Volume l
0.2 Laverage
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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 Asian Koel 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. ›genusEudynamys
  7. ›speciesEudynamys scolopaceus
Full lineage
  1. orderSauria
  2. classBirds · Aves
  3. orderCuculiformes
  4. genusEudynamys
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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. genusEudynamys
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In other languages
Koel (da), Eudynamys scolopaceus (ca), kukačka koel (cs), Asienkoel (de), Eudynamys scolopaceus (es), intianvariskäki (fi) … and 23 more languages
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