CUCULIFORMES

Afganistan 1998South Africa 2000Botswana 1967Mali 1965
Scott:1199 Scott:28 Scott:C25
Knysna Turaco
Tauraco corythaix
(Musophagidae)
Purple-crested Lourie
Gallirex porphyreolophus
(Musophagidae)
Grey Go-away-bird
Corythaixoides concolor
(Musophagidae)
Green Turaco
Tauraco persa
(Musophagidae)
Botswana 1967Thailand 1976USA 1982
Scott:32 Scott:785 Scott:1983
Dideric Cuckoo
Chrysococcyx caprius
(Cuculidae)
Green-billed Malkoha
Phaenicophaeus tristis
(Cuculidae)
Greater Roadrunner
Geococcyx californianus
(Cuculidae)


Bannerman's Turaco
Tauraco bannermani
(Musophagidae)
(CUCULIFORMES)
Common Cuckoo
Cuculus canorus
(Cuculidae)
(CUCULIFORMES)


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Violet Turaco
Musophaga violacea
(Musophagidae)
Guinea Turaco
Tauraco persa
(Musophagidae)
White-bellied Go-away Bird
Corythaixodes Leucogaster
(Musophagidae)

Cuculiformes is distributed over the Temperate Zone and the tropical zone to the master of the whole world and eats Insecta, a lizard, a snail, a frog mainly. Cuculiformes is a gray quiet bird, but there is the green thing of extremely beautiful metallic luster like Emerald Green Cuckoo and Bannerman's Turaco of the African product inside. Cuculiformes which has like a way of flying resemble small hawks will surprise other bird and entrust the nest of other birds with an egg without making a nest with oneself, and all the things of this friend are effective for the chance to lay eggs. Many of these kinds of the long range between a breeding place and wintering place migrate.

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