Violaceous Coucal Centropus violaceus Scientific name definitions

64 cm; 500 g. Adult black with violet sheen, tail broad , bare skin around eye greyish, eye-ring black, iris red, bill black, feet pale slaty-horn. Juvenile dull black above, wings and tail glossed purple, underparts downy, sooty-grey, iris light grey.

New Britain and New Ireland, in Bismarck Archipelago.

Deep, hollow booming notes and loud booming duets .

Not globally threatened. Currently considered Near Threatened. Virtually no information available on status, as range comprises zone of extremely limited ornithological exploration; species considered to be widely but thinly distributed in suitable habitat throughout range in mid-1980s.