Green-billed malkoha
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Scientific classification 
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Aves |
| Order: | Cuculiformes |
| Family: | Cuculidae |
| Genus: | Phaenicophaeus |
| Species: | P. tristis
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| Binomial name | |
| Phaenicophaeus tristis (Lesson, 1830)
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The green-billed malkoha (Phaenicophaeus tristis) is a species of non-parasitic cuckoo found throughout Indian Subcontinent and Southeast Asia. The birds are waxy bluish black with a long graduated tail with white tips to the tail feathers. The bill is prominent and curved. These birds are found in dry scrub and thin forests.
Description[]
Green-billed malkoha is about 50–60 cm centimetres long and weighs 100–128 g. It often has a clear white boarder to the red face patch salty grey on the face and neck. Adult green-billed malkoha has dark grey with green gloss above, oily green wings.
Distribution and habitat[]
Its breeding habitat is Primary forest, second growth, dense thickets, scrub, cultivated areas, rubber plantations across south Asia east from Nepal, India, and Sri Lanka to the Southeast Asia.
Gallery[]
Large green-billed malkoha
Green-billed malkoha in Bangladesh
at Jayanti in Buxa Tiger Reserve in Jalpaiguri district of West Bengal, India
Kaeng Krachan Nat’l Park - Thailand
Fraser's Hill, Malaysia, Sept 1997
References[]
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- ^ BirdLife International (2016). "Phaenicophaeus tristis". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2016: e.T22684098A93014118. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2016-3.RLTS.T22684098A93014118.en. Retrieved 12 November 2021.
- IUCN Red List least concern species
- Phaenicophaeus
- Birds of Bangladesh
- Birds of Eastern Himalaya
- Birds of Nepal
- Birds of India
- Birds of Southeast Asia
- Birds described in 1830
- Cuculiformes stubs