| Jacobin cuckoo | |
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| An adult (India) | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Aves |
| Order: | Cuculiformes |
| Family: | Cuculidae |
| Genus: | Clamator |
| Species: | C. jacobinus
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| Binomial name | |
| Clamator jacobinus (Boddaert, 1783)
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| dark green - year round yellow - summer only blue - winter cream - passage only | |
| Synonyms | |
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Oxylophus jacobinus | |
The Jacobin cuckoo (Clamator jacobinus), also pied cuckoo or pied crested cuckoo, is a member of the cuckoo order of birds that is found in Africa and Asia. It is partially migratory and in India, it has been considered a harbinger of the monsoon rains due to the timing of its arrival.[2] It has been associated with a bird in Indian mythology and poetry, known as the chātaka (Sanskrit: चातक) represented as a bird with a beak on its head that waits for rains to quench its thirst.
- ^ BirdLife International (2016). "Clamator jacobinus". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2016: e.T22683800A93002088. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2016-3.RLTS.T22683800A93002088.en. Retrieved 12 November 2021.
- ^ Khachar, Shivrajkumar (1989). "Pied Crested Cuckoo Clamator jacobinus - the harbinger of the monsoon". J. Bombay Nat. Hist. Soc. 86 (3): 448–449.