Chestnut-breasted malkoha (Phaenicophaeus curvirostris)

Chestnut-breasted malkoha (Phaenicophaeus curvirostris) is a bird species belonging to the family Cuculidae. It reaches a length of 49 cm and features a curved bill, a long tail, and rust-red tail tips. The crown and nape are gray, the upper body is pale green, and the underparts are rust-red.

P. curvirostris measures 49 cm in length and possesses a curved bill, a long tail, and rust-red tail tips. The crown and nape are gray, the upper body is pale green, and the underparts are rust-red.



The skin around the eyes is red. The irises are blue in males and yellow in females. The bill is green with a red base in males, while it is brown in females. The legs are gray.

This species often perches motionless in trees for long periods. They live in pairs or small groups. Their diet consists of small lizards, frogs, nestlings, caterpillars, grasshoppers, cicadas, praying mantises, cockroaches, beetles, true bugs, spiders, and small crabs.

Females typically lay 2–3 whitish eggs. Both the male and female construct a nest—measuring 35 cm in diameter—out of small twigs. The nest features a cup-shaped central depression, lined with leaves, which is 11 cm in diameter and 5 cm deep. Both the male and female incubate the eggs, which generally hatch within 13 days. The chicks remain in the nest for 11 days.

TAXON

Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Subphylum: Vertebrata
Class: Aves
Order: Cuculiformes
Family: Cuculidae
Genus: Phaenicophaeus
Subfamily: Cuculinae Stephens (1815)
Species: Phaenicophaeus curvirostris Shaw (1810)
Subspecies:
P. c. singularis (Myanmar, Thailand, Malaysia, Sumatra, Anambas islands)
P. c. curvirostris (Java)
P. c. deningeri (Java, Bali)
P. c. microrhinus (Bangka Island, Kalimantan)
P. c. harringtoni (Palawan, Balabac, Calamian, Dumaran)

VERNACULAR NAME

Arabic: ملاكوهة كستنائي الصدر
Catalan: Malcoa pitbrú
Chinese (simplified): 栗胸地鹃
Chinese (traditional): 栗胸地鵑
Croatian: Riđoprsi kukal
Czech: Kukačka indonéská, Kukacka krivozobá
Danish: Brunbrystet Malkoha
Dutch: Roestbuikmalkoha
English: Chestnut breasted malkoha, Chestnut-breasted malcoha, Chestnut-breasted malkoha, Palawan malcoha
Estonian: Helk-malkohakägu
Finnish: Kastanjakäki, Kastanjamalkoha
French: Malcoha rouverdin
German: Malkoha-Kuckuck, Schimmerkuckuck
Indonesian: Kadalan birah, Burung kadalan birah
Italian: Malcoa pettocastano, Malcoha pettocastano
Japanese (Kanji): 茶胸番鵑擬き
Japanese (romaji): Cha-mune ban-ken modoki, Chamunebankemmodoki, Chamunebankenmodoki
Japanese: チャムネバンケンモドキ
Java: Birah
Lithuanian: Rudakrūtė krūmyninė gegutė
Malaysia: Cenok birah, Cenuk birah, Cenok dada coklat, Cenuk dada perang, Chenok
Norwegian: Kastanjemalkoha
Pinyin: Lì-xiōng dì-juān
Polish: Kukula sundajska, Kukuła sundajska
Portuguese: Malcoa-de-peito-castanho
Russian: Каштановогрудая кустарниковая кукушка, Каштановогрудая малкоа
Serbian: Smeđogruda malkoa
Slovak: Malkoha hnedoprsá
Spanish: Malcoha de Pecho Castaño, Malcoha Pechicastaño
Swedish: Rödbröstad malkoha
Thai: นกบั้งรอกเขียวอกแดง
Turkish: Kızıl malkoha
Ukrainian: Малкога яванська

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