Levaillant's cuckoo

Weight

122 g – 125.5 gsrc for Weight

Length

Not recorded

Lifespan

Not recorded

Diet

Invertivoresrc for Diet

Main food

Not recorded

Habitat

grasslandsrc for Habitat

Egg incubation

11 dayssrc for Egg incubation

Young per litter or clutch

2src for Young per litter or clutch

Lifestyle

Perchingsrc for Lifestyle

Migration

Migratorysrc for Migration

Conservation status

Least Concern (IUCN)src for Conservation status

Countries on record

Not recorded

Not recorded

The levaillant's cuckoo is listed as Least Concern on the IUCN Red List: it is not currently at risk of extinction.

1. LCLeast Concern
2. NTNear Threatened
3. VUVulnerable
4. ENEndangered
5. CRCritically Endangered
6. EWExtinct in the Wild
7. EXExtinct

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1. kingdomAnimalia
2. phylumChordata
3. classAves
4. orderCuculiformes
5. familyCuculidae
6. genusClamator
7. SpeciesClamator levaillantii (Swainson, 1829)

Synonyms Clamator cafer, Coccystes albonotatus, Coccystes caroli, Coccyzus levaillantii, Cuculus cafer, Cuculus caroli, Edolius ater, Oxylophus cafer, Oxylophus jacobinus albonotatus, Oxylophus levaillantii, Oxylophus levaillantii levaillantii

Catalogue of LifeWikipediaiNaturalistWikidataIUCN Red List

LC, Least Concern

Jacobin cuckoo

Clamator jacobinus

Cuculidae

LC, Least Concern

Great spotted cuckoo

Clamator glandarius

Cuculidae

LC, Least Concern

Chestnut-winged cuckoo

Clamator coromandus

Cuculidae

CompareLevaillant's cuckoo vs Jacobin cuckooLevaillant's cuckoo vs Great spotted cuckooLevaillant's cuckoo vs Chestnut-winged cuckoo

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@misc{levaillants_cuckoo_2026,
  title = {Levaillant's cuckoo (Clamator levaillantii)},
  author = {{CreatureData}},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://creaturedata.com/animals/levaillants-cuckoo},
  note = {Data as of 2026-11-11}
}