Cuckoos
Order: Cuculiformes. Family: Cuculidae
The family Cuculidae includes cuckoos, roadrunners and anis. These birds are of variable size with slender bodies, long tails and strong legs. Unlike the cuckoo species of the Old World, North American cuckoos are not brood parasites. There are 138 species worldwide and 20 species which occur in Vietnam.
- Chestnut-winged Cuckoo Clamator coromandus
- Large Hawk-cuckoo Cuculus sparverioides
- Northern Hawk-cuckoo Cuculus hyperythrus
- Indian Cuckoo Cuculus micropterus
- Common Cuckoo Cuculus canorus
- Oriental Cuckoo Cuculus saturatus
- Horsfield's Cuckoo Cuculus horsfieldi
- Lesser Cuckoo Cuculus poliocephalus
- Banded Bay Cuckoo Cacomantis sonneratii
- Plaintive Cuckoo Cacomantis merulinus
- Little Bronze-Cuckoo Chrysococcyx minutillus
- Asian Emerald Cuckoo Chrysococcyx maculatus
- Violet Cuckoo Chrysococcyx xanthorhynchus
- Asian Drongo-Cuckoo Surniculus lugubris
- Asian Koel Eudynamys scolopacea
- Black-bellied Malkoha Phaenicophaeus diardi
- Green-billed Malkoha Phaenicophaeus tristis
- Coral-billed Ground-cuckoo Carpococcyx renauldi
- Greater Coucal Centropus sinensis
- Lesser Coucal Centropus bengalensis
Read more about this topic: List Of Birds Of Vietnam
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