{{Short description|Species of bird}} {{Speciesbox | image = Coua ruficeps - Лариса Артемьева - 452212704.jpeg | image_caption = | image_alt = Chicken-sized bird with long tail, long legs and slim body with boldly coloured head | status = LC | status_system = IUCN3.1 | status_ref = <ref name="iucn status 12 November 2021">{{cite iucn |author=BirdLife International |date=2017 |title=''Coua ruficeps'' |volume=2017 |article-number=e.T22725437A112393556 |doi=10.2305/IUCN.UK.2017-1.RLTS.T22725437A112393556.en |access-date=12 November 2021}}</ref> | genus = Coua | species = ruficeps | authority = G.R. Gray, 1846 }}
The '''red-capped coua''' ('''''Coua ruficeps''''') is a species of cuckoo in the family Cuculidae. It is endemic to northwest Madagascar.
Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical dry forest and subtropical or tropical moist lowland forest.
The olive-capped coua was formerly treated as a subspecies of the red-capped coua but has been elevated to species status based on the differences in plumage and vocalisation.<ref>{{ cite journal | last=Dowsett-Lemaire | first=F. | date=2004 | title=Review: Oiseaux de Madagascar, Mayotte, Comoros, Seychelles, Réunion, Mauritius (Huguet & Chappuis 2003) | journal=Bulletin of the African Bird Club | volume=11 | issue=2 | pages=161–164 [161] | url=https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/51745550 }}</ref><ref name=ioc>{{cite web| editor1-last=Gill | editor1-first=Frank | editor1-link=Frank Gill (ornithologist) | editor2-last=Donsker | editor2-first=David | editor3-last=Rasmussen | editor3-first=Pamela | editor3-link=Pamela C. Rasmussen | date=August 2024 | title=Turacos, bustards, cuckoos, mesites, sandgrouse | work=IOC World Bird List Version 14.2 | url=https://www.worldbirdnames.org/new/bow/turacos/ | publisher=International Ornithologists' Union | access-date=30 August 2024}}</ref>
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Category:Coua Category:Birds described in 1846 Category:Taxa named by George Robert Gray Category:Taxonomy articles created by Polbot
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