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Alternative name: Javan Coucal

Centropus nigrorufus

Photo by yohanes prabekti
Mangrove Wonorejo Surabaya, East Jakarta, Indonesia

[edit] Identification

46 cm

• Glossy black upperparts (purple gloss on mantle)
• Purple gloss to black underparts
• Rufous wings with black tipped flight feathers and upperwing-coverts
• Long black tail
• Red iris; black bill and feet

[edit] Distribution

South-east Asia: found in the lowlands of Java.

[edit] Taxonomy

This is a monotypic species^[1].

Photo by Boas_Emmanuel
Muara Angke Nature Reserve, North Jakarta, Indonesia, March 2010

[edit] Habitat

Mangrove forests, dry shrubland and swamps.

[edit] Behaviour

[edit] Diet

The diet includes grasshoppers, large moths, caterpillars, large bugs, pupae, snails, slugs, centipedes, crabs, birds’ and insect eggs, frogs and treesnakes.

[edit] Breeding

Its nest is built from fresh and dry fern leaves; the clutch consists of 1–5 white eggs.

[edit] References

1. Clements, JF. 2009. The Clements Checklist of Birds of the World. 6th ed., with updates to December 2009. Ithaca: Cornell Univ. Press. ISBN 978-0801445019.
2. BirdLife International
3. birdbase.hokkaido

• List of references

[edit] External Links

• View more images of this species on Orientalbirdimages