The International Ornithological Committee (IOC) recognizes these 156 species of cuckoos in the family Cuculidae. In addition to the 92 species whose name includes "cuckoo", the family includes anis, roadrunners, coucals, couas, malkohas, and koels. They are distributed among 35 genera, some of which have only one species. Two extinct species (E), the snail-eating coua and the St. Helena cuckoo, are included.[1]
This list is presented according to the IOC taxonomic sequence and can also be sorted alphabetically by common name and binomial.
| Common name | Binomial name + authority | data-sort-type="number" | IOC sequence |
|---|---|---|---|
| Guira cuckoo | Guira guira (Gmelin, JF, 1788) | 1 | |
| Greater ani | Crotophaga major Gmelin, JF, 1788 | 2 | |
| Smooth-billed ani | Crotophaga ani Linnaeus, 1758 | 3 | |
| Groove-billed ani | Crotophaga sulcirostris Swainson, 1827 | 4 | |
| Striped cuckoo | Tapera naevia (Linnaeus, 1766) | 5 | |
| Pheasant cuckoo | Dromococcyx phasianellus (Spix, 1824) | 6 | |
| Pavonine cuckoo | Dromococcyx pavoninus Pelzeln, 1870 | 7 | |
| Lesser ground cuckoo | Morococcyx erythropygus (Lesson, RP, 1842) | 8 | |
| Greater roadrunner | Geococcyx californianus (Lesson, RP, 1829) | 9 | |
| Lesser roadrunner | Geococcyx velox (Wagner, 1836) | 10 | |
| Rufous-vented ground cuckoo | Neomorphus geoffroyi (Temminck, 1820) | 11 | |
| Scaled ground cuckoo | Neomorphus squamiger Todd, 1925 | 12 | |
| Banded ground cuckoo | Neomorphus radiolosus Sclater, PL & Salvin, 1878 | 13 | |
| Rufous-winged ground cuckoo | Neomorphus rufipennis (Gray, GR, 1849) | 14 | |
| Red-billed ground cuckoo | Neomorphus pucheranii (Deville, 1851) | 15 | |
| Buff-headed coucal | Centropus milo Gould, 1856 | 16 | |
| White-necked coucal | Centropus ateralbus Lesson, RP, 1826 | 17 | |
| Ivory-billed coucal | Centropus menbeki Lesson, RP & Garnot, 1828 | 18 | |
| Biak coucal | Centropus chalybeus (Salvadori, 1876) | 19 | |
| Rufous coucal | Centropus unirufus (Cabanis & Heine, 1863) | 20 | |
| Green-billed coucal | Centropus chlororhynchos Blyth, 1849 | 21 | |
| Black-faced coucal | Centropus melanops Lesson, RP, 1830 | 22 | |
| Black-hooded coucal | Centropus steerii Bourns & Worcester, 1894 | 23 | |
| Short-toed coucal | Centropus rectunguis Strickland, 1847 | 24 | |
| Bay coucal | Centropus celebensis Quoy & Gaimard, 1832 | 25 | |
| Gabon coucal | Centropus anselli Sharpe, 1874 | 26 | |
| Black-throated coucal | Centropus leucogaster (Leach, 1814) | 27 | |
| Senegal coucal | Centropus senegalensis (Linnaeus, 1766) | 28 | |
| Blue-headed coucal | Centropus monachus Rüppell, 1837 | 29 | |
| Coppery-tailed coucal | Centropus cupreicaudus Reichenow, 1896 | 30 | |
| White-browed coucal | Centropus superciliosus Hemprich & Ehrenberg, 1829 | 31 | |
| Burchell's coucal | Centropus burchellii Swainson, 1838 | 32 | |
| Sunda coucal | Centropus nigrorufus (Cuvier, 1816) | 33 | |
| Greater coucal | Centropus sinensis (Stephens, 1815) | 34 | |
| Malagasy coucal | Centropus toulou (Müller, PLS, 1776) | 35 | |
| Goliath coucal | Centropus goliath Bonaparte, 1850 | 36 | |
| Black coucal | Centropus grillii Hartlaub, 1861 | 37 | |
| Philippine coucal | Centropus viridis (Scopoli, 1786) | 38 | |
| Lesser coucal | Centropus bengalensis (Gmelin, JF, 1788) | 39 | |
| Violaceous coucal | Centropus violaceus Quoy & Gaimard, 1832 | 40 | |
| Black-billed coucal | Centropus bernsteini Schlegel, 1866 | 41 | |
| Kai coucal | Centropus spilopterus Gray, GR, 1858 | 42 | |
| Pheasant coucal | Centropus phasianinus (Latham, 1801) | 43 | |
| Andaman coucal | Centropus andamanensis Beavan, 1867 | 44 | |
| Bornean ground cuckoo | Carpococcyx radiceus (Temminck, 1832) | 45 | |
| Sumatran ground cuckoo | Carpococcyx viridis Salvadori, 1879 | 46 | |
| Coral-billed ground cuckoo | Carpococcyx renauldi Oustalet, 1896 | 47 | |
| Snail-eating coua | Coua delalandei (Temminck, 1827) (E) | 48 | |
| Crested coua | Coua cristata (Linnaeus, 1766) | 49 | |
| Verreaux's coua | Coua verreauxi Grandidier, A, 1867 | 50 | |
| Blue coua | Coua caerulea (Linnaeus, 1766) | 51 | |
| Red-capped coua | Coua ruficeps Gray, GR, 1846 | 52 | |
| Olive-capped coua | Coua olivceiceps Sharpe, 1873 | 53 | |
| Red-fronted coua | Coua reynaudii Pucheran, 1845 | 54 | |
| Coquerel's coua | Coua coquereli Grandidier, A, 1867 | 55 | |
| Running coua | Coua cursor Grandidier, A, 1867 | 56 | |
| Giant coua | Coua gigas (Boddaert, 1783) | 57 | |
| Red-breasted coua | Coua serriana Pucheran, 1845 | 58 | |
| Raffles's malkoha | Rhinortha chlorophaea (Raffles, 1822) | 59 | |
| Blue malkoha | Ceuthmochares aereus (Vieillot, 1817) | 60 | |
| Green malkoha | Ceuthmochares australis Sharpe, 1873 | 61 | |
| Sirkeer malkoha | Taccocua leschenaultii Lesson, RP, 1830 | 62 | |
| Red-billed malkoha | Zanclostomus javanicus (Horsfield, 1821) | 63 | |
| Yellow-billed malkoha | Rhamphococcyx calyorhynchus (Temminck, 1825) | 64 | |
| Chestnut-breasted malkoha | Phaenicophaeus curvirostris (Shaw, 1810) | 65 | |
| Mentawai malkoha | Phaenicophaeus oeneicaudus (Verreaux, J & Verreaux, É, 1855) | 66 | |
| Red-faced malkoha | Phaenicophaeus pyrrhocephalus (Pennant, 1769) | 67 | |
| Chestnut-bellied malkoha | Phaenicophaeus sumatranus (Raffles, 1822) | 68 | |
| Blue-faced malkoha | Phaenicophaeus viridirostris (Jerdon, 1840) | 69 | |
| Black-bellied malkoha | Phaenicophaeus diardi (Lesson, RP, 1830) | 70 | |
| Green-billed malkoha | Phaenicophaeus tristis (Lesson, RP, 1830) | 71 | |
| Rough-crested malkoha | Dasylophus superciliosus (Dumont, 1823) | 72 | |
| Scale-feathered malkoha | Dasylophus cumingi (Fraser, 1839) | 73 | |
| Chestnut-winged cuckoo | Clamator coromandus (Linnaeus, 1766) | 74 | |
| Great spotted cuckoo | Clamator glandarius (Linnaeus, 1758) | 75 | |
| Levaillant's cuckoo | Clamator levaillantii (Swainson, 1829) | 76 | |
| Jacobin cuckoo | Clamator jacobinus (Boddaert, 1783) | 77 | |
| Little cuckoo | Coccycua minuta (Vieillot, 1817) | 78 | |
| Dwarf cuckoo | Coccycua pumila (Strickland, 1852) | 79 | |
| Ash-colored cuckoo | Coccycua cinerea (Vieillot, 1817) | 80 | |
| Squirrel cuckoo | Piaya cayana (Linnaeus, 1766) | 81 | |
| Black-bellied cuckoo | Piaya melanogaster (Vieillot, 1817) | 82 | |
| Dark-billed cuckoo | Coccyzus melacoryphus Vieillot, 1817 | 83 | |
| Yellow-billed cuckoo | Coccyzus americanus (Linnaeus, 1758) | 84 | |
| Pearly-breasted cuckoo | Coccyzus euleri Cabanis, 1873 | 85 | |
| Mangrove cuckoo | Coccyzus minor (Gmelin, JF, 1788) | 86 | |
| Cocos cuckoo | Coccyzus ferrugineus Gould, 1843 | 87 | |
| Black-billed cuckoo | Coccyzus erythropthalmus (Wilson, A, 1811) | 88 | |
| Grey-capped cuckoo | Coccyzus lansbergi Bonaparte, 1850 | 89 | |
| Chestnut-bellied cuckoo | Coccyzus pluvialis (Gmelin, JF, 1788) | 90 | |
| Bay-breasted cuckoo | Coccyzus rufigularis Hartlaub, 1852 | 91 | |
| Jamaican lizard cuckoo | Coccyzus vetula (Linnaeus, 1758) | 92 | |
| Great lizard cuckoo | Coccyzus merlini (d'Orbigny, 1839) | 93 | |
| Puerto Rican lizard cuckoo | Coccyzus vieilloti (Bonaparte, 1850) | 94 | |
| Hispaniolan lizard cuckoo | Coccyzus longirostris (Hermann, 1783) | 95 | |
| Thick-billed cuckoo | Pachycoccyx audeberti (Schlegel, 1879) | 96 | |
| Dwarf koel | Microdynamis parva (Salvadori, 1876) | 97 | |
| Asian koel | Eudynamys scolopaceus (Linnaeus, 1758) | 98 | |
| Black-billed koel | Eudynamys melanorhynchus Müller, S, 1843 | 99 | |
| Pacific koel | Eudynamys orientalis (Linnaeus, 1766) | 100 | |
| Pacific long-tailed cuckoo | Urodynamis taitensis (Sparrman, 1787) | 101 | |
| Channel-billed cuckoo | Scythrops novaehollandiae Latham, 1790 | 102 | |
| Asian emerald cuckoo | Chrysococcyx maculatus (Gmelin, JF, 1788) | 103 | |
| Violet cuckoo | Chrysococcyx xanthorhynchus (Horsfield, 1821) | 104 | |
| Diederik cuckoo | Chrysococcyx caprius (Boddaert, 1783) | 105 | |
| Klaas's cuckoo | Chrysococcyx klaas (Stephens, 1815) | 106 | |
| Yellow-throated cuckoo | Chrysococcyx flavigularis Shelley, 1880 | 107 | |
| African emerald cuckoo | Chrysococcyx cupreus (Shaw, 1792) | 108 | |
| Long-billed cuckoo | Chalcites megarhynchus (Gray, GR, 1858) | 109 | |
| Horsfield's bronze cuckoo | Chalcites basalis (Horsfield, 1821) | 110 | |
| Black-eared cuckoo | Chalcites osculans (Gould, 1847) | 111 | |
| Rufous-throated bronze cuckoo | Chalcites ruficollis (Salvadori, 1876) | 112 | |
| Shining bronze cuckoo | Chalcites lucidus (Gmelin, JF, 1788) | 113 | |
| White-eared bronze cuckoo | Chalcites meyerii Salvadori, 1874 | 114 | |
| Little bronze cuckoo | Chalcites minutillus Gould, 1859 | 115 | |
| Pied bronze cuckoo | Chalcites crassirostris Salvadori, 1878 | 116 | |
| Pallid cuckoo | Heteroscenes pallidus (Latham, 1801) | 117 | |
| White-crowned cuckoo | Caliechthrus leucolophus (Müller, S, 1840) | 118 | |
| Chestnut-breasted cuckoo | Cacomantis castaneiventris (Gould, 1867) | 119 | |
| Fan-tailed cuckoo | Cacomantis flabelliformis (Latham, 1801) | 120 | |
| Banded bay cuckoo | Cacomantis sonneratii (Latham, 1790) | 121 | |
| Plaintive cuckoo | Cacomantis merulinus (Scopoli, 1786) | 122 | |
| Grey-bellied cuckoo | Cacomantis passerinus (Vahl, 1797) | 123 | |
| Sunda brush cuckoo | Cacomantis sepulcralis (Müller, S, 1843) | 124 | |
| Sulawesi brush cuckoo | Cacomantis virescens (Brüggemann, 1876) | 125 | |
| Sahul brush cuckoo | Cacomantis variolosus (Vigors & Horsfield, 1827) | 126 | |
| Manus brush cuckoo | Cacomantis blandus (Rothschild & Hartert, 1914) | 127 | |
| Solomons brush cuckoo | Cacomantis addendus (Rothschild & Hartert, 1901) | 128 | |
| Moluccan brush cuckoo | Cacomantis aeruginosus Salvadori, 1878 | 129 | |
| Dusky long-tailed cuckoo | Cercococcyx mechowi Cabanis, 1882 | 130 | |
| Olive long-tailed cuckoo | Cercococcyx olivinus Sassi, 1912 | 131 | |
| Barred long-tailed cuckoo | Cercococcyx montanus Chapin, 1928 | 132 | |
| Philippine drongo-cuckoo | Surniculus velutinus Sharpe, 1877 | 133 | |
| Square-tailed drongo-cuckoo | Surniculus lugubris (Horsfield, 1821) | 134 | |
| Fork-tailed drongo-cuckoo | Surniculus dicruroides (Hodgson, 1839) | 135 | |
| Moluccan drongo-cuckoo | Surniculus musschenbroeki Meyer, AB, 1878 | 136 | |
| Moustached hawk-cuckoo | Hierococcyx vagans (Müller, S, 1845) | 137 | |
| Large hawk-cuckoo | Hierococcyx sparverioides (Vigors, 1832) | 138 | |
| Dark hawk-cuckoo | Hierococcyx bocki Wardlaw-Ramsay, RG, 1886 | 139 | |
| Common hawk-cuckoo | Hierococcyx varius (Vahl, 1797) | 140 | |
| Northern hawk-cuckoo | Hierococcyx hyperythrus (Gould, 1856) | 141 | |
| Philippine hawk-cuckoo | Hierococcyx pectoralis Cabanis & Heine, 1863 | 142 | |
| Malaysian hawk-cuckoo | Hierococcyx fugax (Horsfield, 1821) | 143 | |
| Hodgson's hawk-cuckoo | Hierococcyx nisicolor (Blyth, 1843) | 144 | |
| Black cuckoo | Cuculus clamosus Latham, 1801 | 145 | |
| Red-chested cuckoo | Cuculus solitarius Stephens, 1815 | 146 | |
| Lesser cuckoo | Cuculus poliocephalus Latham, 1790 | 147 | |
| Sulawesi cuckoo | Cuculus crassirostris (Walden, 1872) | 148 | |
| Indian cuckoo | Cuculus micropterus Gould, 1838 | 149 | |
| Madagascar cuckoo | Cuculus rochii Hartlaub, 1863 | 150 | |
| African cuckoo | Cuculus gularis Stephens, 1815 | 151 | |
| Himalayan cuckoo | Cuculus saturatus Blyth, 1843 | 152 | |
| Oriental cuckoo | Cuculus optatus Gould, 1845 | 153 | |
| Sunda cuckoo | Cuculus lepidus Müller, S, 1845 | 154 | |
| Common cuckoo | Cuculus canorus Linnaeus, 1758 | 155 | |
| St. Helena cuckoo | Nannococcyx psix Olson, 1975 (E) | 156 | |