Bay Coucal

The bay coucal is a large ground-oriented cuckoo in the genus Centropus and is endemic to the Sulawesi region of Indonesia. Its scientific name is Centropus celebensis. The accessible specialist page confirms identification, habitat and diet sections, but the detailed text was not exposed in the search result, so no measurements or plumage characters are added from photographs or from other coucal species (BirdForum account; Wikipedia taxonomy).

It inhabits moist lowland and montane forest and forages near the ground. A general species account describes a carnivorous diet of terrestrial invertebrates and small vertebrates, consistent with its ground-dwelling feeding mode, but does not provide a verified itemised prey study. A Buton forest study recorded the species across plots representing primary, regenerating and disturbed forest conditions. Nest form, clutch and incubation remained unavailable in the sources opened (Birds and Me general account; Lambusango forest study).