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  Name "Oriental Cuckoo"
  Status LC
  Regnum Animal ia
  Phylum Chordata
  Classis Aves
  Ordo Cuculiformes
  Familia Cuculidae
  Genus '' Cuculus ''
  Species '''''C saturatus'''''
  Binomial ''Cuculus saturatus''
  Binomial Authority ( Blyth , 1843 )


''Cuculus saturatus'' (or "Oriental Cuckoo")was for long a Species of Cuckoo found all over Asia. These birds breed in northern Eurasia and the Himalayas , migrating to southeast Asia and the Greater Sunda Islands for the winter, where an all-year resident population also exists.

More recently, it was determined that this "species" consititutes of three distinct lineages:
  • Himalaya Cuckoo, '''''Cuculus (saturatus) saturatus'''''

  • Oriental Cuckoo proper, '''''Cuculus (saturatus) optatus'''''

  • Sunda Cuckoo, '''''Cuculus (saturatus) lepidus'''''


These are usually seen as distinct species nowadays. As the Type Specimen of the former "Oriental" cuckoo is a bird of the Himalayas population, the name ''saturatus'' applies to the Himalaya Cuckoo if it is considered a species.


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  • http://www.soc.nii.ac.jp/osj/japanese/katsudo/Journal_E/ornsci1_1pdfs/os010206.pdf