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Koel, the Glossary

The true koels, Eudynamys, are a genus of cuckoos from Asia, Australia and the Pacific.^[1]

29 relations: Ancient Greek, Anthochaera, Asia, Asian koel, Australia, Australian raven, Black-billed koel, Brood parasitism, Carl Linnaeus, Cuckoo, Dwarf koel, Function (biology), Genus, George Robert Gray, Mimicry, New Zealand, Nicholas Aylward Vigors, Noisy miner, Pacific koel, Pacific long-tailed cuckoo, Pacific Ocean, Robert B. Payne, Sexual dimorphism, Species complex, Taxonomy (biology), Thick-billed cuckoo, Thomas Horsfield, Type species, White-crowned cuckoo.
Cuculidae
Eudynamys

Ancient Greek

Ancient Greek (Ἑλληνῐκή) includes the forms of the Greek language used in ancient Greece and the ancient world from around 1500 BC to 300 BC.

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Anthochaera

Anthochaera is a genus of birds in the honeyeater family. Koel and Anthochaera are taxa named by Nicholas Aylward Vigors and taxa named by Thomas Horsfield.

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Asia

Asia is the largest continent in the world by both land area and population.

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Asian koel

The Asian koel (Eudynamys scolopaceus) is a member of the cuckoo order of birds, the Cuculiformes. Koel and Asian koel are Eudynamys.

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Australia

Australia, officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous smaller islands.

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Australian raven

The Australian raven (Corvus coronoides) is a passerine corvid bird native to Australia. Koel and Australian raven are taxa named by Nicholas Aylward Vigors.

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Black-billed koel

The black-billed koel (Eudynamys melanorhynchus) is a species of cuckoo in the family Cuculidae. Koel and black-billed koel are Eudynamys.

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Brood parasitism

Brood parasitism is a subclass of parasitism and phenomenon and behavioural pattern of certain animals, brood parasites, that rely on others to raise their young.

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Carl Linnaeus

Carl Linnaeus (23 May 1707 – 10 January 1778), also known after ennoblement in 1761 as Carl von Linné,Blunt (2004), p. 171.

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Cuckoo

Cuckoos are birds in the Cuculidae family, the sole taxon in the order Cuculiformes. Koel and Cuckoo are Cuculidae.

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Dwarf koel

The dwarf koel (Microdynamis parva) is a species of cuckoo in the family Cuculidae. Koel and dwarf koel are Cuculidae.

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Function (biology)

In evolutionary biology, function is the reason some object or process occurred in a system that evolved through natural selection.

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Genus

Genus (genera) is a taxonomic rank above species and below family as used in the biological classification of living and fossil organisms as well as viruses.

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George Robert Gray (8 July 1808 – 6 May 1872) was an English zoologist and author, and head of the ornithological section of the British Museum, now the Natural History Museum, in London for forty-one years.

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Mimicry

In evolutionary biology, mimicry is an evolved resemblance between an organism and another object, often an organism of another species.

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New Zealand

New Zealand (Aotearoa) is an island country in the southwestern Pacific Ocean.

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Nicholas Aylward Vigors

Nicholas Aylward Vigors (1785 – 26 October 1840) was an Irish zoologist and politician.

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Noisy miner

The noisy miner (Manorina melanocephala) is a bird in the honeyeater family, Meliphagidae, and is endemic to eastern and southeastern Australia.

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Pacific koel

The Pacific koel (Eudynamys orientalis), also known as the eastern koel or formerly common koel, is a species of cuckoo in the family Cuculidae. Koel and Pacific koel are Eudynamys.

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Pacific long-tailed cuckoo

The Pacific long-tailed cuckoo (Urodynamis taitensis), also known as the long-tailed cuckoo, long-tailed koel, sparrow hawk, home owl, screecher, screamer or koekoeā in Māori, is a species of the Cuculidae bird family (the cuckoos). Koel and Pacific long-tailed cuckoo are Cuculidae.

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Pacific Ocean

The Pacific Ocean is the largest and deepest of Earth's five oceanic divisions.

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Robert B. Payne

Robert Berkeley Payne is an ornithologist, professor and curator at the Museum of Zoology and Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Michigan.

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Sexual dimorphism

Sexual dimorphism is the condition where sexes of the same species exhibit different morphological characteristics, particularly characteristics not directly involved in reproduction.

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Species complex

In biology, a species complex is a group of closely related organisms that are so similar in appearance and other features that the boundaries between them are often unclear.

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Taxonomy (biology)

In biology, taxonomy is the scientific study of naming, defining (circumscribing) and classifying groups of biological organisms based on shared characteristics.

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Thick-billed cuckoo

The thick-billed cuckoo (Pachycoccyx audeberti) is a species of cuckoo in the family Cuculidae. Koel and thick-billed cuckoo are Cuculidae.

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Thomas Horsfield

Thomas Horsfield (May 12, 1773 – July 24, 1859) was an American physician and naturalist who worked extensively in Indonesia, describing numerous species of plants and animals from the region.

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Type species

In zoological nomenclature, a type species (species typica) is the species name with which the name of a genus or subgenus is considered to be permanently taxonomically associated, i.e., the species that contains the biological type specimen (or specimens).

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White-crowned cuckoo

The white-crowned cuckoo or white-crowned koel (Cacomantis leucolophus) is a species of cuckoo in the family Cuculidae.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Koel

Also known as Common Koel, Common koel (disambiguation), Eudynamys.