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Fan-tailed Cuckoo
Cacomantis flabelliformis · Family Cuculidae
Cacomantis flabelliformis
Family Cuculidae
- Order
- Cuculiformes
- Family
- Cuculidae
- GBIF occurrence records
- 317,187
- Countries and territories with records
- 10
About this species
This species has 317,187 occurrence records from 10 countries and territories (GBIF, 21 October 2026). Australia accounts for 99.3% of the records; no other country or territory reaches 1%. In Australia, this species accounts for 0.29% of all bird records in GBIF.
The scientific name Cacomantis flabelliformis combines the genus name Cacomantis with the species epithet flabelliformis. The Warbla app catalog lists 8 species of the genus Cacomantis; apart from this one, those with the most GBIF records are Cacomantis variolosus, Cacomantis merulinus and Cacomantis passerinus.
The catalog has GBIF record counts for 144 species of the family Cuculidae. This species ranks 9th among them; the family’s most-recorded species is Cuculus canorus. Its record count is 3.5 times the family average (90,374). The family Cuculidae belongs to the order Cuculiformes, which has 146 species in the Warbla app catalog.