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SpeciesCuculiformesCuculidae
Birds

🐦Greater Coucal

Centropus sinensis (Stephens, 1815)

褐翅鸦鹃（学名：Centropus sinensis）为杜鹃科鸦鹃属的鸟类，俗名大毛鸡、乌鸦雉、毛鸡、黄蜂、红毛鸡。分布于印度、斯里兰卡、东至菲律宾、印尼、台灣的金門與馬祖以及中国大陆的浙江、福建、贵州、广东、广西、云南、海南等地，该物种的模式产地在浙江宁波。 其种加词“sinensis”意为“中华的”。

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

By sex

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

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

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

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

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

Volume l
0.3 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 Greater Coucal yet: body length, shoulder height, top speed, bite force, maximum lifespan.

Where it sits

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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