Fan-tailed Cuckoo

Taxonomy

Order

Cuculiformes

Family

Cuculidae

Genus

Cacomantis

eBird Code

fatcuc1

Subspecies (6)

• Cacomantis flabelliformis excitus

  montane forest of New Guinea

• Cacomantis flabelliformis flabelliformis

  breeds southwestern and eastern Australia south of Cape York Peninsula, including Tasmania; winters to southern New Guinea

• Cacomantis flabelliformis meeki

  central Solomon Islands (apparently rare)

• Cacomantis flabelliformis pyrrophanus

  New Caledonia including Loyalty Islands

• Cacomantis flabelliformis schistaceigularis

  Vanuatu

• Cacomantis flabelliformis simus

  Fiji