Square-tailed Drongo-Cuckoo (Surniculus lugubris)
About the Square-tailed Drongo-Cuckoo
The square-tailed drongo-cuckoo (Surniculus lugubris) is a species of cuckoo that resembles a black drongo. It is found along the Himalayas extending east into Southeast Asia. The calls are series of piercing sharp whistles rising in pitch but shrill and choppily delivered. In the past, the species S. lugubris also included the subspecies dicruroides, which is now treated as a separate species, the fork-tailed drongo-cuckoo.
A real field recording of the Square-tailed Drongo-Cuckoo. Press play and focus on the rhythm and pitch of each phrase.
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Our streaming copies are mirrored from the original xeno-canto file and transcoded to 96 kbps mono — a modification, so we note it here; the licence for each recording is named in its credit below.
1 recording on this page · licensed Public Domain / CC0 ×1 · mirrored on this server, free for commercial reuse · recorded in Cambodia, China, India, Indonesia, Malaysia, Philippines and elsewhere · xeno-canto lists 177 recordings for this species in total.
Similar species
- Fork-tailed Drongo-CuckooSurniculus dicruroidesprofile
- Moluccan Drongo-CuckooSurniculus musschenbroekiprofile
- Philippine Drongo-CuckooSurniculus velutinusprofile
Species grouped by shared genus, family and range.