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Greater Black Coucal
Centropus menbeki Lesson, RP; Garnot, P 1828
The ivory-billed coucal or greater black coucal is a species of cuckoo in the family Cuculidae. It is found in the Aru Islands and New Guinea. Its natural habitat is subtropical or tropical moist lowland forest. Source: Wikipedia
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Cuculiformes
Family:
Cuculidae
Genus:
Centropus
Scientific:
Centropus menbeki
Classification
Order:Cuculiformes
Family:
Cuculidae
Genus:
Centropus
Scientific:
Centropus menbeki
Original description
Citation:
Lesson, RP; Garnot, P 1828
Reference:
Voy. Monde Coquille [Duperrey], Zool.
Atlas, 1 livr.6 pl.33
Protonym:
Centropus Menbeki
Type locality:
New Guinea = Dorey [now Manokwari].
Link:
https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/38768592
Avibase identifiers
Avibase ID:
741223A537B00D63
Avibase ID:
avibase-741223A5
Short link:
https://avibase.ca/741223A5
Taxonomic Serial Number:
TSN: 554750
Geographic range:
- Centropus menbeki: New Guinea and western satellite islands
- Centropus menbeki menbeki (menbeki): New Guinea, including Raja Ampat Islands (off western New Guinea), and Numfor (Cenderawasih Bay, off northwestern New Guinea)
- Centropus menbeki menbeki (jobiensis): Yapen (Cenderawasih Bay, off northwestern New Guinea)
- Centropus menbeki aruensis: Aru Islands (off southwestern New Guinea)
Source: Clements checklist
Greater Black Coucal
Catalan:
Cucal negre gros
Czech:
kukačka tmavá
Danish:
Lysnæbbet Sporegøg
German:
Weißschnabelkuckuck
Spanish:
Cucal Menebiki
Spanish (Spain):
Cucal Menebiki
Finnish:
papuankukaali
French:
Coucal mênebiki
Croatian:
crni kukal
Hungarian:
nagy fekete bozótkakukk
Italian:
Cucal nero maggiore
Japanese (romaji):
papuabanken
Japanese:
パプアバンケン
Lithuanian:
didžioji pentinuotoji gegutė
Dutch:
Groene Spoorkoekoek
Norwegian Nynorsk:
Menbekisporegauk
Norwegian:
Menbekisporegjøk
Polish:
kukal wielki
Portuguese:
cucal-de-bico-claro
Portuguese (Portugal):
cucal-bico-de-marfim
Russian:
Светлоклювый кукаль
Slovak:
ostrohár menebiki
Serbian:
Veliki crni kukal
Swedish:
större svartsporrgök
Ukrainian:
Коукал великий
Chinese:
大鸦鹃
Chinese (Traditional):
大鴉鵑
Authorities recognizing this taxonomic concept:
| Avibase taxonomic concepts (current): Greater Black Coucal ( Centropus menbeki) [version 1] |
| Avibase taxonomic concepts v. 2023 (May 2023): Greater Black Coucal ( Centropus menbeki) [version 1] |
| Avibase taxonomic concepts v. 2024 (Oct 2024): Greater Black Coucal ( Centropus menbeki) [version 1] |
| Avibase taxonomic concepts v. 01 (August 2013): Greater Black Coucal ( Centropus menbeki) [version 1] |
| Avibase taxonomic concepts v. 02 (May 2014): Greater Black Coucal ( Centropus menbeki) [version 1] |
| Avibase taxonomic concepts v. 03 (March 2015): Greater Black Coucal ( Centropus menbeki) [version 1] |
| Avibase taxonomic concepts v. 04 (Aug 2016): Greater Black Coucal ( Centropus menbeki) [version 1] |
| Avibase taxonomic concepts v. 05 (Jan 2017): Greater Black Coucal ( Centropus menbeki) [version 1] |
| Avibase taxonomic concepts v. 06 (Feb 2018): Greater Black Coucal ( Centropus menbeki) [version 1] |
| Avibase taxonomic concepts v. 07 (Feb 2020): Greater Black Coucal ( Centropus menbeki) [version 1] |
| Avibase taxonomic concepts v. 08 (Feb 2021): Greater Black Coucal ( Centropus menbeki) [version 1] |
| Birdlife checklist version 00: Greater Black Coucal ( Centropus menbeki) [version 1] |
| Birdlife checklist version 01: Greater Black Coucal ( Centropus menbeki) [version 1] |
| Birdlife checklist version 02: Greater Black Coucal ( Centropus menbeki) [version 1] |
| Birdlife checklist version 03: Greater Black Coucal ( Centropus menbeki) [version 1] |
| Birdlife checklist version 04: Greater Black Coucal ( Centropus menbeki) [version 1] |
| Birdlife checklist version 05 (Jun 2012): Greater Black Coucal ( Centropus menbeki) [version 1] |
| Birdlife checklist version 05.1 (Oct 2012): Greater Black Coucal ( Centropus menbeki) [version 1] |
| Birdlife checklist version 06 (Nov 2013): Greater Black Coucal ( Centropus menbeki) [version 1] |
| Birdlife checklist version 06.1 (Feb 2014): Greater Black Coucal ( Centropus menbeki) [version 1] |
| Birdlife checklist version 07 (Jul 2014): Ivory-billed Coucal ( Centropus menbeki) [version 1] |
| Birdlife checklist version 08 (Oct 2015): Ivory-billed Coucal ( Centropus menbeki) [version 1] |
| Birdlife checklist version 09 (Dec 2016): Ivory-billed Coucal ( Centropus menbeki) [version 1] |
| Birdlife checklist version 09.1 (Jun 2017): Ivory-billed Coucal ( Centropus menbeki) [version 1] |
| HBW and BirdLife Taxonomic Checklist v2 (Dec 2017): Ivory-billed Coucal ( Centropus menbeki) [version 1] |
| HBW and BirdLife Taxonomic Checklist v3 (Nov 2018): Ivory-billed Coucal ( Centropus menbeki) [version 1] |
| HBW and BirdLife Taxonomic Checklist v4 (Dec 2019): Ivory-billed Coucal ( Centropus menbeki) [version 1] |
| HBW and BirdLife Taxonomic Checklist v5 (Dec 2020): Ivory-billed Coucal ( Centropus menbeki) [version 1] |
| HBW and BirdLife Taxonomic Checklist v6 (Dec 2021): Ivory-billed Coucal ( Centropus menbeki) [version 1] |
| HBW and BirdLife Taxonomic Checklist v6b (Jul 2022): Ivory-billed Coucal ( Centropus menbeki) [version 1] |
| HBW and BirdLife Taxonomic Checklist v7 (Dec 2022): Ivory-billed Coucal ( Centropus menbeki) [version 1] |
| HBW and BirdLife Taxonomic Checklist v8 (Dec 2023): Ivory-billed Coucal ( Centropus menbeki) [version 1] |
| HBW and BirdLife Taxonomic Checklist v9 (Oct 2024): Ivory-billed Coucal ( Centropus menbeki) [version 1] |
| Commission internationale pour les noms français des oiseaux (1993, révision 2009): Coucal mênebiki ( Centropus menbeki) [version 1] |
| Commission internationale pour les noms français des oiseaux (1993): Coucal menébeki ( Centropus menbeki) [version 1] |
| Clements 1st edition: New Guinea Coucal ( Centropus menbeki) [version 1] |
| Clements, version 2021: Greater Black Coucal ( Centropus menbeki) [version 1] |
| Clements, version 2022: Greater Black Coucal ( Centropus menbeki) [version 1] |
| Clements, version 2023: Greater Black Coucal ( Centropus menbeki) [version 1] |
| Clements, version 2024: Greater Black Coucal ( Centropus menbeki) [version 1] |
| Clements 3rd edition: New Guinea Coucal ( Centropus menbeki) [version 1] |
| Clements 4th edition: Greater Black Coucal ( Centropus menbeki) [version 1] |
| Clements 5th edition (as published): Greater Black Coucal ( Centropus menbeki) [version 1] |
| Clements 5th edition (incl. 2000 revisions): Greater Black Coucal ( Centropus menbeki) [version 1] |
| Clements 5th edition (incl. 2001 revisions): Greater Black Coucal ( Centropus menbeki) [version 1] |
| Clements 5th edition (incl. 2002 revisions): Greater Black Coucal ( Centropus menbeki) [version 1] |
| Clements 5th edition (incl. 2003 revisions): Greater Black Coucal ( Centropus menbeki) [version 1] |
| Clements 5th edition (incl. 2004 revisions): Greater Black Coucal ( Centropus menbeki) [version 1] |
| Clements 5th edition (incl. 2005 revisions): Greater Black Coucal ( Centropus menbeki) [version 1] |
| Clements 6th edition: Greater Black Coucal ( Centropus menbeki) [version 1] |
| Clements 6th edition (incl. 2007 revisions): Greater Black Coucal ( Centropus menbeki) [version 1] |
| Clements 6th edition (incl. 2008 revisions): Greater Black Coucal ( Centropus menbeki) [version 1] |
| Clements 6th edition (incl. 2009 revisions): Greater Black Coucal ( Centropus menbeki) [version 1] |
| Clements 6th edition (version 6.5 incl. 2010 revisions): Greater Black Coucal ( Centropus menbeki) [version 1] |
| Clements 6th edition (version 6.6 incl. 2011 revisions): Greater Black Coucal ( Centropus menbeki) [version 1] |
| Clements 6th edition (version 6.7 incl. 2012 revisions): Greater Black Coucal ( Centropus menbeki) [version 1] |
| Clements 6th edition (version 6.8 incl. 2013 revisions): Greater Black Coucal ( Centropus menbeki) [version 1] |
| Clements 6th edition (version 6.9 incl. 2014 revisions): Greater Black Coucal ( Centropus menbeki) [version 1] |
| Clements, version 2015: Greater Black Coucal ( Centropus menbeki) [version 1] |
| Clements, version 2016: Greater Black Coucal ( Centropus menbeki) [version 1] |
| Clements, version 2017: Greater Black Coucal ( Centropus menbeki) [version 1] |
| Clements, version 2018: Greater Black Coucal ( Centropus menbeki) [version 1] |
| Clements, version 2019: Greater Black Coucal ( Centropus menbeki) [version 1] |
| eBird version 1.50: Greater Black Coucal ( Centropus menbeki) [version 1] |
| eBird version 1.52: Greater Black Coucal ( Centropus menbeki) [version 1] |
| eBird version 1.53: Greater Black Coucal ( Centropus menbeki) [version 1] |
| eBird version 1.54: Greater Black Coucal ( Centropus menbeki) [version 1] |
| eBird version 1.55: Greater Black Coucal ( Centropus menbeki) [version 1] |
| eBird version 2015: Greater Black Coucal ( Centropus menbeki) [version 1] |
| eBird version 2016: Greater Black Coucal ( Centropus menbeki) [version 1] |
| eBird version 2017: Greater Black Coucal ( Centropus menbeki) [version 1] |
| eBird version 2018: Greater Black Coucal ( Centropus menbeki) [version 1] |
| eBird version 2019: Greater Black Coucal ( Centropus menbeki) [version 1] |
| eBird version 2021: Greater Black Coucal ( Centropus menbeki) [version 1] |
| eBird version 2022: Greater Black Coucal ( Centropus menbeki) [version 1] |
| eBird version 2023: Greater Black Coucal ( Centropus menbeki) [version 1] |
| eBird version 2024: Greater Black Coucal ( Centropus menbeki) [version 1] |
| Howard and Moore 2nd edition: Greater Coucal ( Centropus menbecki) [version 1] |
| Howard and Moore 2nd edition (incl. ? suppl): Greater Coucal ( Centropus menbeki) [version 1] |
| Howard and Moore 3rd edition (as published): Greater Black Coucal ( Centropus menbeki) [version 1] |
| Howard and Moore 3rd edition (incl. corrigenda 1.2): Greater Black Coucal ( Centropus menbeki) [version 1] |
| Howard and Moore 3rd edition (incl. corrigenda 2.1): Greater Black Coucal ( Centropus menbeki) [version 1] |
| Howard and Moore 3rd edition (incl. corrigenda 3.1): Greater Black Coucal ( Centropus menbeki) [version 1] |
| Howard and Moore 3rd edition (incl. corrigenda 4): Greater Black Coucal ( Centropus menbeki) [version 1] |
| Howard and Moore 3rd edition (incl. corrigenda 5): Greater Black Coucal ( Centropus menbeki) [version 1] |
| Howard and Moore 3rd edition (incl. corrigenda 6): Greater Black Coucal ( Centropus menbeki) [version 1] |
| Howard and Moore 3rd edition (incl. corrigenda 7): Greater Black Coucal ( Centropus menbeki) [version 1] |
| Howard and Moore 3rd edition (incl. corrigenda 8): Greater Black Coucal ( Centropus menbeki) [version 1] |
| Howard and Moore 4th edition (vol. 1-2): Greater Black Coucal ( Centropus menbeki) [version 1] |
| Howard and Moore 4th edition (incl. corrigenda vol.1-2): Greater Black Coucal ( Centropus menbeki) [version 1] |
| Handbook of the Birds of the World (vol 1-16): Greater Black Coucal ( Centropus menbeki) [version 1] |
| Handbook of the Birds of the World Alive (31/01/2015): Ivory-billed Coucal ( Centropus menbeki) [version 1] |
| Handbook of the Birds of the World Alive (03/07/2017): Ivory-billed Coucal ( Centropus menbeki) [version 1] |
| Handbook of the Birds of the World and Birdlife (Dec 2017): Ivory-billed Coucal ( Centropus menbeki) [version 1] |
| Handbook of the Birds of the World and Birdlife (Dec 2018): Ivory-billed Coucal ( Centropus menbeki) [version 1] |
| IOC World Bird Names, version 1.0: Ivory-billed Coucal ( Centropus menbeki) [version 1] |
| IOC World Bird Names, version 1.1: Ivory-billed Coucal ( Centropus menbeki) [version 1] |
| IOC World Bird Names, version 1.5: Ivory-billed Coucal ( Centropus menbeki) [version 1] |
| IOC World Bird Names, version 1.6: Ivory-billed Coucal ( Centropus menbeki) [version 1] |
| IOC World Bird Names, version 1.7: Ivory-billed Coucal ( Centropus menbeki) [version 1] |
| IOC World Bird Names, version 2.0: Ivory-billed Coucal ( Centropus menbeki) [version 1] |
| IOC World Bird Names, version 2.1: Ivory-billed Coucal ( Centropus menbeki) [version 1] |
| IOC World Bird Names, version 2.2: Ivory-billed Coucal ( Centropus menbeki) [version 1] |
| IOC World Bird Names, version 2.3: Ivory-billed Coucal ( Centropus menbeki) [version 1] |
| IOC World Bird Names, version 2.4: Ivory-billed Coucal ( Centropus menbeki) [version 1] |
| IOC World Bird Names, version 2.5: Ivory-billed Coucal ( Centropus menbeki) [version 1] |
| IOC World Bird Names, version 2.6: Ivory-billed Coucal ( Centropus menbeki) [version 1] |
| IOC World Bird Names, version 2.7: Ivory-billed Coucal ( Centropus menbeki) [version 1] |
| IOC World Bird Names, version 2.8: Ivory-billed Coucal ( Centropus menbeki) [version 1] |
| IOC World Bird Names, version 2.9: Ivory-billed Coucal ( Centropus menbeki) [version 1] |
| IOC World Bird Names, version 2.10: Ivory-billed Coucal ( Centropus menbeki) [version 1] |
| IOC World Bird Names, version 2.11: Ivory-billed Coucal ( Centropus menbeki) [version 1] |
| IOC World Bird Names, version 3.1: Ivory-billed Coucal ( Centropus menbeki) [version 1] |
| IOC World Bird Names, version 3.2: Ivory-billed Coucal ( Centropus menbeki) [version 1] |
| IOC World Bird Names, version 3.3: Ivory-billed Coucal ( Centropus menbeki) [version 1] |
| IOC World Bird Names, version 3.4: Ivory-billed Coucal ( Centropus menbeki) [version 1] |
| IOC World Bird Names, version 3.5: Ivory-billed Coucal ( Centropus menbeki) [version 1] |
| IOC World Bird Names, version 4.1: Ivory-billed Coucal ( Centropus menbeki) [version 1] |
| IOC World Bird Names, version 4.2: Ivory-billed Coucal ( Centropus menbeki) [version 1] |
| IOC World Bird Names, version 4.3: Ivory-billed Coucal ( Centropus menbeki) [version 1] |
| IOC World Bird Names, version 4.4: Ivory-billed Coucal ( Centropus menbeki) [version 1] |
| IOC World Bird Names, version 5.1: Ivory-billed Coucal ( Centropus menbeki) [version 1] |
| IOC World Bird Names, version 5.2: Ivory-billed Coucal ( Centropus menbeki) [version 1] |
| IOC World Bird Names, version 5.3: Ivory-billed Coucal ( Centropus menbeki) [version 1] |
| IOC World Bird Names, version 5.4: Ivory-billed Coucal ( Centropus menbeki) [version 1] |
| IOC World Bird Names, version 6.1: Ivory-billed Coucal ( Centropus menbeki) [version 1] |
| IOC World Bird Names, version 6.2: Ivory-billed Coucal ( Centropus menbeki) [version 1] |
| IOC World Bird Names, version 6.3: Ivory-billed Coucal ( Centropus menbeki) [version 1] |
| IOC World Bird Names, version 6.4: Ivory-billed Coucal ( Centropus menbeki) [version 1] |
| IOC World Bird Names, version 7.1: Ivory-billed Coucal ( Centropus menbeki) [version 1] |
| IOC World Bird Names, version 7.2: Ivory-billed Coucal ( Centropus menbeki) [version 1] |
| IOC World Bird Names, version 7.3: Ivory-billed Coucal ( Centropus menbeki) [version 1] |
| IOC World Bird Names, version 8.1: Ivory-billed Coucal ( Centropus menbeki) [version 1] |
| IOC World Bird Names, version 8.2: Ivory-billed Coucal ( Centropus menbeki) [version 1] |
| IOC World Bird Names, version 9.1: Ivory-billed Coucal ( Centropus menbeki) [version 1] |
| IOC World Bird Names, version 9.2: Ivory-billed Coucal ( Centropus menbeki) [version 1] |
| IOC World Bird Names, version 10.1: Ivory-billed Coucal ( Centropus menbeki) [version 1] |
| IOC World Bird Names, version 10.2: Ivory-billed Coucal ( Centropus menbeki) [version 1] |
| IOC World Bird Names, version 11.1: Ivory-billed Coucal ( Centropus menbeki) [version 1] |
| IOC World Bird Names, version 11.2: Ivory-billed Coucal ( Centropus menbeki) [version 1] |
| IOC World Bird Names, version 12.1: Ivory-billed Coucal ( Centropus menbeki) [version 1] |
| IOC World Bird Names, version 12.2: Ivory-billed Coucal ( Centropus menbeki) [version 1] |
| IOC World Bird Names, version 13.1: Ivory-billed Coucal ( Centropus menbeki) [version 1] |
| IOC World Bird Names, version 13.2: Ivory-billed Coucal ( Centropus menbeki) [version 1] |
| IOC World Bird Names, version 14.1: Ivory-billed Coucal ( Centropus menbeki) [version 1] |
| IOC World Bird Names, version 14.2: Ivory-billed Coucal ( Centropus menbeki) [version 1] |
| Morony, Bock and Farrand: Greater Black Coucal ( Centropus menbeki) [version 1] |
| Peters' Check-list of the Birds: Centropus menbeki [version 1] |
| Peters' Check-list of the Birds (original): Centropus menbeki [version 1] |
| Peters' Check-list of the Birds (2nd edition): Centropus menbeki [version 1] |
| Sibley and Monroe (1993): Greater Black Coucal ( Centropus menbeki) [version 1] |
| Sibley and Monroe (1993, including corrections up to 1998): Greater Black Coucal ( Centropus menbeki) [version 1] |
| Sibley and Monroe, Birds of the World Version 2.0: Greater Black Coucal ( Centropus menbeki) [version 1] |
| Zoonomen - Zoological Nomenclature Resource: Centropus menbeki [version 1] |
| Zoonomen - Zoological Nomenclature Resource: Centropus menbeki [version 1] |
Taxonomic status:
Species status: full species
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Other synonyms
See also the taxonomic synonyms table.
Catalan: Cucal negre gros
Czech: kukačka tmavá
Danish: Lysnæbbet Sporegøg
German: Mohrenkuckuck, Weißschnabelkuckuck
English: Greater Black Coucal, Greater Coucal, Greter coucal, Ivory-billed Coucal, Jungle Coucal, Menbeki Coucal, Menbek's Coucal, New Guinea Coucal
English, HBW: Ivory-billed Coucal
English (IOC): Ivory-billed Coucal
English (United States): Greater Black Coucal
Spanish: Cucal grande, Cucal Menebiki
Spanish (Spain): Cucal Menebiki
Spanish (HBW): Greater Black Coucal
Estonian: menebiki-kannuskägu
Finnish: Papuankukaali
French: Coucal menébeki, Coucal mênebiki
Croatian: crni kukal
Hungarian: nagy fekete bozótkakukk
Indonesian: Bubut Pini
Italian: Cucal nero maggiore, Cuculo fagiano di Menbeck
Japanese (romaji): papuabanken
Japanese: パプアバンケン
Scientific: Centropus menbecki, Centropus menbeki, Centropus menbeki menbeki, Centropus venatorius
Lithuanian: Didžioji pentiniuotoji gegutė, didžioji pentinuotoji gegutė
Dutch: Groene Spoorkoekoek
Norwegian Nynorsk: Menbekisporegauk
Norwegian: Menbekisporegjøk
Polish: kukal wielki
Portuguese: cucal-de-bico-claro
Portuguese (Portugal): cucal-bico-de-marfim
Russian: Большая шпорцевая кукушка, Светлоклювый кукаль, Чернолицая шпорцевая кукушка
Slovak: Ostrohár menebiki
Serbian: Veliki crni kukal
Swedish: Större svart sporrgök, större svartsporrgök
Turkish: Büyük kara kukal
Ukrainian: Коукал великий
Chinese: 大鸦鹃
Chinese (Traditional): 大鴉鵑
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