Diederik cuckoo either "cuprea" (coppery) or "capensis" (of Cape of Good Hope). The English name is an onomatopoeic rendition of its call. Diederik cuckoo The Diederik cuckoo ("Chrysococcyx caprius"), formerly dideric cuckoo or didric cuckoo, and sometimes called Diederik's cuckoo, is a member of the cuckoo order of birds, the Cuculiformes, which also includes the roadrunners and the anis. The diederik cuckoo is a smallish cuckoo at 18 to 20 cm. Adult males are glossy green above with copper-sheened areas on the back and whitish underparts. They have a broken white eye-stripe and a short, green malar stripe. All remiges have three
Philippine drongo-cuckoo laying its eggs in the nests of other birds but its host species are unknown. Philippine drongo-cuckoo The Philippine drongo-cuckoo ("Surniculus velutinus") is a bird of the cuckoo family found only in the Philippines. It belongs to the genus "Surniculus" along with the Asian drongo-cuckoo ("S. lugubris"). The two were previously classified as a single species but are now often separated based on differences in calls and juvenile plumage. It is long. The black bill is slender and curved and the tail is fairly long and slightly forked. The plumage is mostly glossy blue-black apart from a white bar on