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title: "Kukielczyk"
description: "Surniculus lugubris — Ptaki. The square-tailed drongo-cuckoo (Surniculus lugubris) is a species of cuckoo that resembles a black drongo."
canonical: https://animalchecklist.com/pl/animal/square-tailed-drongo-cuckoo
last_updated: 2026-09-20
---

# Kukielczyk

> Surniculus lugubris — Ptaki. The square-tailed drongo-cuckoo (Surniculus lugubris) is a species of cuckoo that resembles a black drongo.

- Scientific name: *Surniculus lugubris*
- Category: `birds` (Ptaki)
- Habitats: `forest` (Las)
- iNaturalist observations: 1511
- Wikidata: [Q1268852](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1268852)
- iNaturalist taxon: [1930](https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/1930)

## Names

- en: Square-tailed Drongo-Cuckoo
- de: Drongokuckuck
- es: Cuclillo Drongo Asiático
- fr: Coucou surnicou
- nl: Rechtstaartdrongokoekoek
- pl: Kukielczyk

## Countries with the most observations

MY (369), TH (266), ID (189), SG (185), IN (118), VN (90), CN (44), KH (18), MO (14), BD (11), PH (7), BT (6)

## Summary

The square-tailed drongo-cuckoo (Surniculus lugubris) is a species of cuckoo that resembles a black drongo. It is found along the Himalayas extending east into Southeast Asia. The calls are series of piercing sharp whistles rising in pitch but shrill and choppily delivered. In the past, the species S. lugubris also included the subspecies dicruroides, which is now treated as a separate species, the fork-tailed drongo-cuckoo.

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

## Photo

![Kukielczyk](https://animalchecklist.com/img/animals/square-tailed-drongo-cuckoo/medium.jpg)

Photo: Stefan C · CC0 · inaturalist — https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/155288567

## Machine access

`GET https://animalchecklist.com/api/v1/animals/square-tailed-drongo-cuckoo?lang=pl` — see [openapi.json](https://animalchecklist.com/openapi.json).