Green Malkoha (Ceuthmochares australis)
About the Green Malkoha
The green malkoha or whistling yellowbill (Ceuthmochares australis) is a species of cuckoo in the family Cuculidae. This species and the blue malkoha were previously considered conspecific and together known as the yellowbill. It has a green tail, wings and back. It has a widespread distribution down the coast of Eastern Africa from Kenya to South Africa. It ranges from dense forest to riverine forest and forest edges. In the forest it typically lives in the subcanopy at between 8–30 m.
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We only publish recordings we may use commercially, because this site is supported by ads. xeno-canto lists 34 recordings for this species: 4 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.
As soon as someone uploads a freely licensed recording, we mirror it and the player appears here.
Listed as recorded in Ethiopia, Kenya, Malawi, South Africa in the xeno-canto catalogue.
Other birds you can hear here
- African GoshawkAccipiter tachirorecording
- African Pied WagtailMotacilla aguimprecording
- Black CrakeZapornia flavirostrarecording
- Black-crowned Night HeronNycticorax nycticoraxrecording
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- BrubruNilaus aferrecording
These are the birds recorded alongside it, not close relatives — the site holds no other member of its genus or family yet.