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Plaintive Cuckoo

SP
Cacomantis merulinus
우는뻐꾸기
Included in KBR checklist
Plaintive Cuckoo
Flickr users CharlesLam · Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 2.0

Plaintive Cuckoo (Cacomantis merulinus), known in Korean as 우는뻐꾸기 is retained in the KoreAves reference system, but none of the current record-source types contributes an eligible occurrence record under the contracted evidence rules. This does not establish biological absence from South Korea.

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Taxonomy context

Family Cuculidae

Family per AviList v2025b (CC BY 4.0) · Avibase record ↗ · Evidence snapshot 2026-10-04

Chestnut-winged Cuckoo밤색날개뻐꾸기Common Cuckoo뻐꾸기Hodgson's Hawk-Cuckoo작은매사촌Indian Cuckoo검은등뻐꾸기Large Hawk-Cuckoo큰매사촌Lesser Coucal작은뻐꾸기사촌Lesser Cuckoo두견Northern Hawk-Cuckoo매사촌Oriental Cuckoo벙어리뻐꾸기Square-tailed Drongo-Cuckoo검은두견이