Animalia > Chordata > Aves > Cuculiformes > Cuculidae > Carpococcyx > Carpococcyx viridis | Carpococcyx viridis (Sumatran Ground Cuckoo) | |
The Sumatran ground cuckoo (Carpococcyx viridis) is a large, about 55 cm (22 in) long, long-tailed terrestrial species of cuckoo. It has a green upperparts plumage with black crown, green bill and legs, bluish green bare orbital skin and brown below. It was formerly considered conspecific with the Bornean ground cuckoo. An Indonesian endemic, the Sumatran ground cuckoo is distributed to rainforests of southern Sumatra. |
This forest dwelling bird is endemic to the Indonesian island of Sumatra. It is only found in sub-montane and montane forest along the southern Barisan Mountain range, where it is estimated that there are 70-400 individuals. Whilst little is known about the species it may well be in decline due, primarily, to deforestation. There are currently a number of protected sites within the Barisan Mountains some of which overlap with the range of the Sumatran Ground-cuckoo. Uniqueness Scale: Similiar (0) Unique (100) Uniqueness & Vulnerability Scale: Similiar & Secure (0) Unique & Vulnerable (100) ED Score: 21.1544 EDGE Score: 5.87063 |
Diet [1] | Carnivore (Invertebrates) | Diet - Invertibrates [1] | 100 % | Forages - Ground [1] | 100 % |
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Countries |
Ecozone |
Biome |
Species |
Report |
Climate |
Land Use |
Sumatran lowland rain forests |
Indonesia |
Indo-Malayan |
Tropical and Subtropical Moist Broadleaf Forests |
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Location |
IBA Criteria |
Website |
Climate |
Land Use |
Batang Gadis |
Indonesia |
A1, A2, A3 |
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Bukit Baling |
Indonesia |
A1, A2, A3 |
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Gunung Dempo |
Indonesia |
A1, A2, A3 |
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Gunung Leuser |
Indonesia |
A1, A2, A3 |
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Gunung Singgalang |
Indonesia |
A1, A2, A3 |
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Kerinci Seblat |
Indonesia |
A1, A2, A3 |
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Name |
Location |
Endemic |
Species |
Website |
Sundaland |
Brunei Darussalam, Indonesia, Malaysia, Singapore, Thailand |
Yes |
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 Ecoregions provided by World Wide Fund For Nature (WWF). WildFinder: Online database of species distributions, ver. 01.06 WWF WildFINDERProtected Areas provided by Le Saout, S., Hoffmann, M., Shi, Y., Hughes, A., Bernard, C., Brooks, T.M., Bertzky, B., Butchart, S.H.M., Stuart, S.N., Badman, T. & Rodrigues, A.S.L. (2013) Protected areas and effective biodiversity conservation. Science, 342, 803–805 ♦ Biological Inventories of the World's Protected Areas in cooperation between the Information Center for the Environment at the University of California, Davis and numerous collaborators. |
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