Birds of Singapore
by the Bird Society of Singapore
Cacomantis sepulcralis
Family: Cuckoos · Status: Uncommon resident · Size: 21.5–24 cm · Conservation: Not Evaluated
Resident from the Thai-Malay Peninsula to Greater and Lesser Sundas, Sulawesi, and the Philippines.
Adult has greyish head, greyish brown upperparts, peachy-rufous throat and rest of underparts, and yellow eyering. Female can also occur in a hepatic form resembling juvenile and the hepatic form of Plaintive Cuckoo; separable by yellow eyering, broader blackish bars on upperparts, throat and breast, and rufous bars on uppertail restricted to notches along outer fringes. Juvenile has rufescent upperparts with blackish bars, whitish underparts with blackish barrings, and yellowish eyering.
Forest, forest edge, mangroves, parks and gardens.
Known brood parasite of Malaysian Pied Fantail in Singapore.