Square-tailed Drongo-Cuckoo

Overview

Square-tailed Drongo-Cuckoo (Surniculus lugubris) is a species of Cuckoos (Cuculidae) in the order Cuckoos.

Scientific Classification

Genus: Surniculus; binomial: Surniculus lugubris; authority: (Horsfield, 1821).

Distribution

Breeding range: the Oriental Region.

Conservation Status

This taxon is listed as Extant (living) in the IOC World Bird List.

Remarks

Change English name of Surniculus lugubris to Square-tailed Drongo-Cuckoo with splits of S. dicruroides and D. musschenbroeki. Subspecific taxonomy, nomenclature and ranges of this species and Fork-tailed Drongo-Cuckoo are tentative and based primarily on Payne (2005) modified by Rasmussen & Anderton (2005). For alternate treatments see Erritzøe et al. (2012) and Dickinson & Remsen (2013).