Rusty-breasted Cuckoo (Cacomantis sepulcralis)
About the Rusty-breasted Cuckoo
The Sunda brush cuckoo (Cacomantis sepulcralis) is a species of cuckoo in the family Cuculidae. It is found in Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines, Singapore, and Thailand. Its natural habitat is subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests. It was formerly treated as conspecific with the Sulawesi brush cuckoo with the English name "rusty-breasted cuckoo". The Sunda brush cuckoo was formally described in 1843 by the German naturalist Salomon Müller under the binomial name Cuculus sepulcralis. It is now placed in the genus Cacomantis that Müller had introduced in the same article as he had described the species. The genus name is from the Ancient Greek κακομαντις (kakomantis) meaning "prophet of evil". The specific epithet sepulcralis is Latin meaning "sepulchral" or "of the tomb".
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We only publish recordings we may use commercially, because this site is supported by ads. xeno-canto lists 160 recordings for this species: 49 CC BY-NC-SA · 36 CC BY-NC-ND. None of them permits commercial use, so there is no player here — the page is kept as a profile so the bird is not missing from the guide.
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Listed as recorded in Indonesia, Malaysia, Philippines, Singapore in the xeno-canto catalogue.
Related species you can hear
- Banded Bay CuckooCacomantis sonneratiirecording
- Fan-tailed CuckooCacomantis flabelliformisrecording
- Grey-bellied CuckooCacomantis passerinusrecording
- Plaintive CuckooCacomantis merulinusrecording
This species has no recording here yet — these relatives do, so you can hear what the family sounds like.