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Pied Cuckooshrike Coracina bicolor Scientific name definitions

Barry Taylor
Version: 1.0 — Published March 4, 2020
Text last updated January 1, 2005

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Field Identification

31 cm. Male has top of head, upperparts and entire upperwings black, slightly glossed steel-green, lower back, rump and uppertail-coverts white; tail black, outer feathers tipped white; black of head extends down to lores, below eye and ear-coverts, the last two regions being spotted white; cheeks and entire underparts pure white, underwing-coverts and axillaries white; sometimes a trace of dark barring on rump, cheeks and underparts; iris dark brown; bill grey-blue; legs black. Distinguished from all congeners by combination of black upperparts, white rump and white underparts. Female is grey, not black, on upperparts, with throat and breast grey. Juvenile is like female, but has head and upperparts browner, with white feather edges; immature has grey upperparts, secondaries broadly edged white, rectrices tipped white.

Systematics History

Monotypic.

Subspecies

Monotypic.

Distribution

Sulawesi (mainly in N) and adjacent islands (including Bangka, Manterawu, Togian Is, Peleng, Kabaena, Muna, Buton, Selayar), also Sangihe Is.

Habitat

Primary lowland and hill forest, including forest edges and forest with clearings; also scrub and mangroves. To 500 m, sometimes to 900 m.

Movement

None recorded.

Diet and Foraging

Food not recorded; presumably insects and fruit. Found in parties of 2–5 individuals; frequents the canopy.

Sounds and Vocal Behavior

Song a loud, ringing series comprising 3–5 trisyllabic notes followed by 4–8 louder single whistles, this often preceded by several rasping notes.

Breeding

No information.

Conservation Status

Conservation status on Birdlife NT Near Threatened
Not globally threatened. Currently considered Near-threatened. Restricted-range species: present in Sulawesi EBA and Sangihe and Talaud EBA. Generally uncommon to rare on Sulawesi, and apparently absent from large parts of C & E regions, but locally common in N; uncommon on Buton. Only two records from Sangihe. Range apparently fragmented; forest destruction within the altitudinal range occupied by this species has been extensive in recent decades, and its populations must have suffered a decline. Occurs in Dumoga-Bone National Park, in Sulawesi.
Distribution of the Pied Cuckooshrike - Range Map
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Distribution of the Pied Cuckooshrike

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Recommended Citation

Taylor, B. (2020). Pied Cuckooshrike (Coracina bicolor), version 1.0. In Birds of the World (J. del Hoyo, A. Elliott, J. Sargatal, D. A. Christie, and E. de Juana, Editors). Cornell Lab of Ornithology, Ithaca, NY, USA. https://doi.org/10.2173/bow.piecus1.01
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