Pacific long-tailed cuckoo
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"Long-tailed cuckoo" redirects here. For the African long-tailed cuckoos, see Cercococcyx.
The Pacific long-tailed cuckoo (Urodynamis taitensis), also known as the long-tailed cuckoo, long-tailed koel, sparrow hawk, home owl, screecher, screamer[2] or koekoeā in Māori, is a species of the Cuculidae bird family (the cuckoos). It is a migratory bird that spends spring and summer in New Zealand, its only breeding place, and spends winter in the Pacific islands. It is a brood parasite, laying its eggs in the nests of other bird species and leaving them to raise its chicks.
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Long-tailed cuckoo | |
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Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Aves |
Order: | Cuculiformes |
Family: | Cuculidae |
Genus: | Urodynamis Salvadori, 1880 |
Species: | U. taitensis |
Binomial name | |
Urodynamis taitensis (Sparrman, 1787) | |
Synonyms | |
Cuculus taitensis |
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