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Plaintive cuckoo
Cacomantis merulinus · Family Cuculidae
Cacomantis merulinus
Family Cuculidae
- Order
- Cuculiformes
- Family
- Cuculidae
- GBIF occurrence records
- 83,270
- Countries and territories with records
- 22
About this species
This species has 83,270 occurrence records from 22 countries and territories (GBIF, 21 October 2026). Most records come from Thailand (32.3%), Malaysia (13.9%), Cambodia (11.4%), India (8.4%) and Indonesia (7.6%); together they account for 73.6% of the total. In Thailand, this species accounts for 0.41% of all bird records in GBIF.
The scientific name Cacomantis merulinus combines the genus name Cacomantis with the species epithet merulinus. The Warbla app catalog lists 8 species of the genus Cacomantis; apart from this one, those with the most GBIF records are Cacomantis flabelliformis, Cacomantis variolosus and Cacomantis passerinus.
The catalog has GBIF record counts for 144 species of the family Cuculidae. This species ranks 28th among them; the family’s most-recorded species is Cuculus canorus. Its record count is close to the family average (90,374). The family Cuculidae belongs to the order Cuculiformes, which has 146 species in the Warbla app catalog.