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Sunda Coucal - BirdForum Opus

Alternative name: Javan Coucal

Centropus nigrorufus

Identification

46 cm. Glossy black above, purple gloss on mantle, rufous wings with black tips to flight feathers and upperwing-coverts, long black tail and purple gloss to black underparts. Red iris, black bill and feet.

Distribution

Java.

Taxonomy

Habitat

Mangrove forests, dry shrubland and swamps.

Behaviour

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

Its nest is built from fresh and dry fern leaves, and 1–5 white eggs are laid.

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