Large cuckooshrike

Coracina macei

The large cuckooshrike is a species of cuckooshrike found in the Indian Subcontinent and Southeast Asia. They are mostly insectivorous and usually fly just above the forest canopy. They have a loud call "klu-eep" and have a characteristic habit of shrugging their closed wings shortly after landing on a perch.
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Naming

French: Échenilleur de Macé German: Maskenraupenfänger Spanish: Oruguero de Macé
Other common names: Black-throated Cuckoo-shrike, Indian Cuckoo-shrike
Large cuckooshrike (Coracina macei) Bukit Fraser, Malaysia. Jul 22, 2015. Coracina macei,Geotagged,Large cuckooshrike,Malaysia,Summer

Distribution

Subspecies
C. m. nipalensis (Hodgson, 1836) – Himalayas from Garhwal and W Nepal E to NE India (W Assam).
C. m. macei (Lesson, 1831) – C & S India from Garhwal E to West Bengal and Orissa, S to Travancore.
C. m. layardi (Blyth, 1866) – Sri Lanka (except NW lowlands).
C. m. andamana (Neumann, 1915) – Andaman Is.
C. m. siamensis (Stuart Baker, 1918) – Myanmar, S China (S Guizhou, W, NW & S Yunnan), Thailand (S to Isthmus of Kra) and S Indochina.
C. m. larutensis (Sharpe, 1887) – Peninsular Malaysia (from N Perak S to S Selangor and Pahang).
C. m. rexpineti (Swinhoe, 1863) – SE China (Guangxi, Guangdong, Fujian), Taiwan, N Laos and N Vietnam.
C. m. larvivora (Hartert, 1910) – Hainan I.

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Status: Least concern
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Taxonomy
KingdomAnimalia
DivisionChordata
ClassAves
OrderPasseriformes
FamilyCampephagidae
GenusCoracina
SpeciesC. macei
Photographed in
Sri Lanka
Malaysia