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Fan-tailed Cuckoo
Cacomantis flabelliformis (Latham, 1801)
Cuculidae — Cuckoos
Fan-tailed Cuckoo, Cacomantis flabelliformis, is a cuckoo of the family Cuculidae found in montane New Guinea, south-western and eastern Australia, Tasmania, New Caledonia, the Solomon Islands, Vanuatu and Fiji. It is also recorded from south-west Polynesia. In Australia it uses temperate forest, mangrove forest, moist montane forest, paddocks, orchards and gardens. It is recognised by its slate-grey head, back and wings, rufous underparts, barred black-and-white tail and yellow eye ring, which helps separate it from the brush cuckoo and chestnut-breasted cuckoo.
- Order
- Cuculiformes
- Family
- Cuculidae — Cuckoos
- Breeding range
- Australasia, Pacific Ocean: montane New Guinea, sw, e Australia and Tasmania, New Caledonia, Solomon Is., Vanuatu and Fiji (sw Polynesia)
