๐Ÿพ What Animal Lives Where

Where does the Lesser Coucal live?

Centropus bengalensis has 92,623 records in 23 countries and territories, from 1843 to 2026. Most records come from Taiwan.

Lesser Coucal
Lesser Coucal โ€” JJ Harrison / CC BY-SA 4.0 ยท source
AnimaliaChordataAvesCuculiformesCuculidaeCentropus

When it is recorded

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Peak month: May. Records cluster in the months an animal is present and being looked for, so a summer peak can reflect observer effort as much as the animal.

Where it is recorded

PlaceRecordsShare
Taiwan 44,213
India 11,245
Indonesia 5,917
Thailand 5,443
Singapore 4,091
Malaysia 4,077
Cambodia 3,568
Philippines 3,355
China 2,750
Hong Kong 2,336
Nepal 1,972
Vietnam 1,417
Laos 594
Timor-Leste 516
Bangladesh 408
Bhutan 348
Myanmar 300
Brunei 52
South Korea 10
Macao 7
Sri Lanka 2
Botswana 1
Japan 1

Related animals

Others in the family Cuculidae.

Common Cuckoo
Common Cuckoo
2,069,691 records
Asian Koel
Asian Koel
1,193,346 records
Greater Coucal
Greater Coucal
1,049,763 records
Squirrel Cuckoo
Squirrel Cuckoo
747,466 records
Smooth-billed Ani
Smooth-billed Ani
697,437 records
Groove-billed Ani
Groove-billed Ani
532,176 records
common hawk cuckoo
common hawk cuckoo
244,791 records
Guira Cuckoo
Guira Cuckoo
241,150 records
Status from the records: resident
Recorded across many years and months โ€” an established presence. This is inferred from how many years and months the animal appears in, not from a range map โ€” treat it as evidence, not a formal assessment.