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Oriental Cuckoo Cuculus optatus Scientific name definitions

Robert B. Payne and Guy M. Kirwan
Version: 1.0 — Published March 4, 2020
Text last updated March 16, 2015

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Payne, R. B. and G. M. Kirwan (2020). Oriental Cuckoo (Cuculus optatus), version 1.0. In Birds of the World (S. M. Billerman, B. K. Keeney, P. G. Rodewald, and T. S. Schulenberg, Editors). Cornell Lab of Ornithology, Ithaca, NY, USA. https://doi.org/10.2173/bow.oricuc2.01
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