Cuculidae

This brood parasitic cuckoo species lives across the Indian subcontinent, mimics hawks, and specializes in eating hairy caterpillars.

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Hodgson's hawk-cuckoo is a brood parasitic cuckoo found in parts of East and South Asia with a unique trick to get more food from foster parents.

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Hodgson's hawk-cuckoo is a brood parasitic cuckoo with a unique adaptation to boost foster parent food provisioning.

The large hawk-cuckoo is a brood-parasitic cuckoo species native to Asia, known for its loud, repetitive calls.

Chrysococcyx minutillus, the little bronze cuckoo, is the world’s smallest cuckoo found across Southeast Asia to parts of Australia and New Guinea.

Chrysococcyx lucidus, the shining bronze cuckoo, is a small, often hard-to-spot insectivorous cuckoo with mostly migratory populations.

Horsfield's bronze cuckoo is a small Cuculidae cuckoo native to Australia and Southeast Asia, first recorded in New Zealand in 2024.

Chrysococcyx osculans is a small non-metallic backed cuckoo found across most of dry inland Australia, feeding on insects.

Urodynamis taitensis, the long-tailed koel, is a migratory New Zealand cuckoo that winters across the southern Pacific.

Raffles's malkoha (Rhinortha chlorophaea) is an extirpated-from-Singapore cuckoo species found across Southeast Asia.

The sirkeer cuckoo (Taccocua leschenaultii) is a ground-foraging cuckoo found across the northern Indian subcontinent and Sri Lanka.

The red-billed malkoha (Zanclostomus javanicus) is a cuckoo species found across parts of Southeast Asia.

Cuculus pallidus, the pallid cuckoo, is an Australian migratory cuckoo that prefers hairy caterpillars and lightly timbered open habitats.

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