Name Every Cuckoo

Cuckoo for cuckoos? Test your Cuculidae knowledge with this quiz! There are 152 species of cuckoo split into 35 genera, how many can you name?
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Only includes extant cuckoos
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Genus
Species
Guira
Guira Cuckoo
Crotophaga
Greater Ani
 
Smooth-billed Ani
Groove-billed Ani
Tapera
Striped Cuckoo
Dromococcyx
Pheasant Cuckoo
 
Pavonine Cuckoo
Morococcyx
Lesser Ground-Cuckoo
Geococcyx
Lesser Roadrunner
 
Greater Roadrunner
Neomorphus
Rufous-vented Ground-Cuckoo
 
Scaled Ground-Cuckoo
Banded Ground-Cuckoo
Rufous-winged Ground-Cuckoo
Red-billed Ground-Cuckoo
Carpococcyx
Sumatran Ground-Cuckoo
 
Bornean Ground-Cuckoo
Coral-billed Ground-Cuckoo
Coua
Crested Coua
 
Verreaux's Coua
Blue Coua
Red-capped Coua
Olive-capped Coua
Red-fronted Coua
Coquerel's Coua
Running Coua
Giant Coua
Red-breasted Coua
Centropus
Buff-headed Coucal
 
Pied Coucal
Biak Coucal
Greater Black Coucal
Rufous Coucal
Green-billed Coucal
Black-faced Coucal
Short-toed Coucal
Black-hooded Coucal
Bay Coucal
Gabon Coucal
Black-throated Coucal
Senegal Coucal
Blue-headed Coucal
Coppery-tailed Coucal
White-browed Coucal
Burchell's Coucal
Sunda Coucal
Andaman Coucal
Greater Coucal
Goliath Coucal
Malagasy Coucal
Black Coucal
Philippine Coucal
Lesser Coucal
Violaceous Coucal
Lesser Black Coucal
Pheasant Coucal
Rhinortha
Raffles's Malkoha
Ceuthmochares
Blue Malkoha
 
Green Malkoha
Taccocua
Sirkeer Malkoha
Zanclostomus
Red-billed Malkoha
Phaenicophaeus
Chestnut-breasted Malkoha
 
Mentawai Malkoha
Chestnut-bellied Malkoha
Red-faced Malkoha
Blue-faced Malkoha
Black-bellied Malkoha
Green-billed Malkoha
Rhamphococcyx
Yellow-billed Malkoha
Dasylophus
Red-crested Malkoha
 
Scale-feathered Malkoha
Clamator
Chestnut-winged Cuckoo
 
Great Spotted Cuckoo
Levaillant's Cuckoo
Pied Cuckoo
Coccycua
Little Cuckoo
 
Dwarf Cuckoo
 
Ash-colored Cuckoo
Piaya
Squirrel Cuckoo
 
Black-bellied Cuckoo
Coccyzus
Dark-billed Cuckoo
 
Yellow-billed Cuckoo
Pearly-breasted Cuckoo
Mangrove Cuckoo
Cocos Cuckoo
Black-billed Cuckoo
Gray-capped Cuckoo
Chestnut-bellied Cuckoo
Bay-breasted Cuckoo
Jamaican Lizard-Cuckoo
Puerto Rican Lizard-Cuckoo
Great Lizard-Cuckoo
Hispaniolan Lizard-Cuckoo
Pachycoccyx
Thick-billed Cuckoo
Microdynamis
Dwarf Koel
Eudynamys
Asian Koel
 
Black-billed Koel
Pacific Koel
Urodynamis
Long-tailed Koel
Scythrops
Channel-billed Cuckoo
Chrysococcyx
Asian Emerald Cuckoo
 
Violet Cuckoo
Dideric Cuckoo
Klaas's Cuckoo
Yellow-throated Cuckoo
African Emerald Cuckoo
Chalcites
Long-billed Cuckoo
 
Horsfield's Bronze-Cuckoo
Black-eared Cuckoo
Rufous-throated Bronze-Cuckoo
Shining Bronze-Cuckoo
White-eared Bronze-Cuckoo
Little Bronze-Cuckoo
Pied Bronze-Cuckoo
Heteroscenes
Pallid Cuckoo
Caliechthrus
White-crowned Cuckoo
Cacomantis
Chestnut-breasted Cuckoo
 
Fan-tailed Cuckoo
Banded Bay Cuckoo
Plaintive Cuckoo
Gray-bellied Cuckoo
Sunda Brush Cuckoo
Sulawesi Brush Cuckoo
Moluccan Brush Cuckoo
Sahul Brush Cuckoo
Solomons Brush Cuckoo
Manus Brush Cuckoo
Cercococcyx
Dusky Long-tailed Cuckoo
 
Olive Long-tailed Cuckoo
Barred Long-tailed Cuckoo
Surniculus
Fork-tailed Drongo-Cuckoo
 
Philippine Drongo-Cuckoo
Square-tailed Drongo-Cuckoo
Moluccan Drongo-Cuckoo
Hierococcyx
Moustached Hawk-Cuckoo
 
Large Hawk-Cuckoo
Dark Hawk-Cuckoo
Common Hawk-Cuckoo
Northern Hawk-Cuckoo
Philippine Hawk-Cuckoo
Hodgson's Hawk-Cuckoo
Malaysian Hawk-Cuckoo
Cuculus
Black Cuckoo
 
Red-chested Cuckoo
Lesser Cuckoo
Sulawesi Cuckoo
Indian Cuckoo
African Cuckoo
Madagascar Cuckoo
Himalayan Cuckoo
Sunda Cuckoo
Common Cuckoo
Oriental Cuckoo
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