Moustached Hawk-Cuckoo (Hierococcyx vagans)
About the Moustached Hawk-Cuckoo
The moustached hawk-cuckoo (Hierococcyx vagans) is a species of cuckoo in the family Cuculidae. It is found in Brunei, Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, Myanmar, and Thailand. Its natural habitat is evergreen and secondary forests. Threatened by habitat loss, it has been assessed as a near-threatened species. Salomon Müller described the species in 1845, as Cuculus vagans. The species is monotypic. The moustached hawk-cuckoo is found in southern Myanmar, Thailand, southern Laos, Malaysia, Singapore, Brunei, and Kalimantan, Sumatra and Java of Indonesia. Its habitat is evergreen and secondary forests and forest edges, especially on hills and in alluvial and bamboo forests. It occurs at elevations up to 915 m (3,002 ft).
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Listed as recorded in Indonesia, Malaysia, Thailand in the xeno-canto catalogue.
Related species you can hear
- Common Hawk-CuckooHierococcyx variusrecording
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