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English Common Cuckoo
Scientific (Cuculus canorus canorus)
Order CUCULIFORMES
Family (Latin) Cuculidae
Family (English) Cuckoos
Other name(s) Coucou gris, European Cuckoo, Cuckoo
Breeding Regions PAL
Breeding Range Subregions widespread
Nonbreeding Range Subregions OR, AF
Countries (BETA)map Afghanistan,Albania,Algeria,Andorra,Angola,Armenia,Austria,Azerbaijan,Bahrain,Barbados, Belarus,Belgium,Benin,Bhutan,Bosnia and Herzegovina,Botswana,Bulgaria,Burkina Faso,Burundi,Cameroon, Cape Verde,Central African Republic,Chad,China,Comoros,Congo,Croatia,Cyprus,Czech Republic,Democratic Republic of Congo, Denmark,Djibouti,Egypt,Equatorial Guinea,Eritrea,Estonia,Ethiopia,Finland,France,Gabon, Gambia,Georgia,Germany,Ghana,Gibraltar,Greece,Guinea-Bissau,Hungary,India - Andaman and Nicobar Islands,India - mainland, Indonesia,Iran,Iraq,Ireland,Israel,Italy,Ivory Coast,Japan,Jordan,Kazakhstan, Kenya,Kuwait,Kyrgyzstan,Laos,Latvia,Lebanon,Lesotho,Liberia,Libya,Liechtenstein, Lithuania,Luxembourg,Macedonia,Malawi,Maldives,Mali,Malta,Mauritania,Moldova,Monaco, Mongolia,Montenegro,Morocco,Mozambique,Myanmar,Namibia,Nepal,Netherlands,Niger,Nigeria, North Korea,Norway,Oman,Pakistan,Palestine,Philippines,Poland,Portugal,Qatar,Romania, Russia,Rwanda,San Marino,Sao Tome and Principe,Saudi Arabia,Senegal,Serbia,Sierra Leone,Slovakia,Slovenia, Somalia,South Africa,South Korea,South Sudan,Spain,Sri Lanka,Sudan,Swaziland,Sweden,Switzerland, Syria,Tajikistan,Tanzania,Thailand,Togo,Tunisia,Turkey,Turkmenistan,Uganda,Ukraine, United Arab Emirates,United Kingdom,Uzbekistan,Vietnam,Western Sahara,Yemen,Zambia,Zimbabwe,
IOC 13.1 Subspecies Group Subspecies Breeding Range
canorus Europe and the Middle East to Kamchatka, Japan and n China
bangsi Iberian Pen., Balearic Is. and nw Africa
subtelephonus Turkmenistan to s Mongolia
bakeri w China and n India to s China and nw Thailand
IUCN Status Code LC (Birdlife factsheet )
Described by Linnaeus, 1758
German Kuckuck
French Coucou gris
Chinese 大杜鹃
Japanese カッコウ
Russian Кукушка
Spanish Cuco común
Portuguese cuco-canoro
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Breeding Range Codes
AF Africa (entire continent rather than south of Sahara)
AN Antarctica
AO Atlantic Ocean
AU Australasia (Wallacea (Indonesian islands east of Wallace's line), New Guinea and its islands, Australia, New Zealand and its subantarctic islands, the Solomons, New Caledonia, and Vanuatu)
PAL Eurasia (Europe, Asia from the Middle East through central Asia north of the Himalayas, Siberia and northern China to Japan)
IO Indian Ocean
LA Latin America (Middle and South America)
MA Middle America (Mexico through Panama)
NA North America (includes the Caribbean)
NO Northern oceans
OR Oriental Region (South Asia from Pakistan to Taiwan, plus Southeast Asia, the Philippines, and Greater Sundas)
PO Pacific Ocean
SA South America
SO Southern oceans
TO Temperate oceans
TrO Tropical oceans
Worldwide Worldwide
IUCN Status Codes
EX Extinct
EW Extinct in the wild
CR Critically Endangered
EN Endangered
VU Vulnerable
NT Near Threatened
LC Least Concern
DD Data deficient
NE Not evaluated
PE Probably extinct (informal)
PEW Probably extinct in the wild (informal)