Red-capped coua
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| Red-capped coua | |
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| Chicken-sized bird with long tail, long legs and slim body with boldly coloured head | |
| In an arboretum near Tulear, Madagascar | |
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Aves |
| Order: | Cuculiformes |
| Family: | Cuculidae |
| Genus: | Coua |
| Species: | C. ruficeps
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| Binomial name | |
| Coua ruficeps G.R. Gray, 1846
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The red-capped coua (Coua ruficeps) is a species of cuckoo in the family Cuculidae. It is endemic to northwest Madagascar.
Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical dry forest and subtropical or tropical moist lowland forest.
The olive-capped coua was formerly treated as a subspecies of the red-capped coua but has been elevated to species status based on the differences in plumage and vocalisation.[2][3]
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