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title: "Kuifkoekoek"
description: "Clamator glandarius — Vogels. The great spotted cuckoo (Clamator glandarius) is a member of the cuckoo order of birds, the Cuculiformes, which also includes the roadrunners, the anis and the coucals."
canonical: https://animalchecklist.com/nl/animal/great-spotted-cuckoo
last_updated: 2026-09-20
---

# Kuifkoekoek

> Clamator glandarius — Vogels. The great spotted cuckoo (Clamator glandarius) is a member of the cuckoo order of birds, the Cuculiformes, which also includes the roadrunners, the anis and the coucals.

- Scientific name: *Clamator glandarius*
- Category: `birds` (Vogels)
- Habitats: unknown
- iNaturalist observations: 2901
- Wikidata: [Q665363](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q665363)
- iNaturalist taxon: [1787](https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/1787)

## Names

- en: Great Spotted Cuckoo
- de: Häherkuckuck
- es: Críalo europeo
- fr: Coucou-geai
- nl: Kuifkoekoek
- pt: Cuco-rabilongo
- pl: Kukułka czubata

## Countries with the most observations

ES (1285), FR (322), ZA (225), IL (174), PT (144), GR (66), TZ (64), CY (50), IT (48), NA (40), KE (37), DZ (23)

## Summary

The great spotted cuckoo (Clamator glandarius) is a member of the cuckoo order of birds, the Cuculiformes, which also includes the roadrunners, the anis and the coucals.
It is widely spread throughout Africa and the Mediterranean Basin. It is a brood parasite that lays its eggs in the nests of corvids, in particular the Eurasian magpie.

Text: Wikipedia (en), CC BY-SA 4.0 — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_spotted_cuckoo

## Photo

![Kuifkoekoek](https://animalchecklist.com/img/animals/great-spotted-cuckoo/medium.jpg)

Photo: Jean-Paul Boerekamps · CC0 · inaturalist — https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/80208834

## Machine access

`GET https://animalchecklist.com/api/v1/animals/great-spotted-cuckoo?lang=nl` — see [openapi.json](https://animalchecklist.com/openapi.json).