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New Species of Hawk-Cuckoo Discovered in Borneo


A team of ornithologists from the National University of Singapore, Birdtour Asia Ltd., and the University of Queensland has described a new and cryptic species of the hawk-cuckoo genus Hierococcyx from Borneo, a large island shared by the Malaysian states of Sabah and Sarawak, the Indonesian state of Kalimantan, and the sultanate Brunei.

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