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Banded Bay Cuckoo
Cacomantis sonneratii · Family Cuculidae
Cacomantis sonneratii
Family Cuculidae
- Order
- Cuculiformes
- Family
- Cuculidae
- GBIF occurrence records
- 39,951
- Countries and territories with records
- 16
About this species
This species has 39,951 occurrence records from 16 countries and territories (GBIF, 21 October 2026). Most records come from India (42.7%), Thailand (26.3%), Malaysia (10.3%), Singapore (5.9%) and Vietnam (3.9%); together they account for 89.1% of the total. In India, this species accounts for 0.028% of all bird records in GBIF.
The scientific name Cacomantis sonneratii combines the genus name Cacomantis with the species epithet sonneratii. 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 merulinus.
The catalog has GBIF record counts for 144 species of the family Cuculidae. This species ranks 40th among them; the family’s most-recorded species is Cuculus canorus. Its record count is 44.2% of the family average (90,374). The family Cuculidae belongs to the order Cuculiformes, which has 146 species in the Warbla app catalog.