Dark hawk-cuckoo

Dark hawk-cuckoo
Conservation status
Least Concern  (IUCN 3.1) [1]
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Aves
Order:	Cuculiformes
Family:	Cuculidae
Genus:	Hierococcyx
Species:	H. bocki
Binomial name
Hierococcyx bocki Wardlaw-Ramsay, 1886

The dark hawk-cuckoo (Hierococcyx bocki) is a bird in the family Cuculidae formerly considered conspecific with the large hawk-cuckoo (Hierococcyx sparverioides) and placed in the genus Cuculus .

Geographic Range

In Malaysia it occurs in upper Malaya, northern Sarawak and Sabah. In Indonesia it is found on Sumatra and in Kalimantan. It is also found in Brunei.

References

1. BirdLife International (2016). "Hierococcyx bocki". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species . 2016 e.T22728118A94971184. doi: 10.2305/IUCN.UK.2016-3.RLTS.T22728118A94971184.en . Retrieved 11 November 2021.