Where can you see the Lesser Coucal?
Some of the best places to see the Lesser Coucal in the wild include Orang National Park (India), Bako National Park (Malaysia) and Mutis Timau National Park (Indonesia) — among 27 wildlife hotspots across Indonesia, India, Malaysia, Thailand and China. Every hotspot below shows real sighting data and the best seasons to visit.
Aketajawe Lolobata National Park
Oba Tengah, Indonesia
+123 birds+2 mammals
Across the northeastern arm of Halmahera, where the Wallace Line once marked the boundary between Asian and Australasian fauna, lies a sprawling wilderness of over 13,800…
VIEW NATIONAL PARKBako National Park
Kuching, Malaysia
+210 birds+17 mammals
Weathered sandstone cliffs rise dramatically from the South China Sea, their ochre faces sculpted by millennia of wind and tide into a landscape of extraordinary geological…
VIEW NATIONAL PARKBogani Nani Wartabone National Park
Bolaang Mongondow, Indonesia
+154 birds+4 mammals
Across North Sulawesi's rugged interior, where tectonic uplift has carved steep ridges and deep valleys through ancient volcanic terrain, Bogani Nani Wartabone National Park sprawls across…
VIEW NATIONAL PARKGunung Ciremai National Park
Majalengka, Indonesia
+116 birds+1 mammals
Volcanic slopes rise sharply from West Java's interior, where Gunung Ciremai's 3,078-metre summit dominates a landscape carved by geological upheaval and shaped by equatorial monsoon rainfall.…
VIEW NATIONAL PARKGunung Mulu National Park
Long Seridan, Malaysia
+280 birds+39 mammals
Where granite monoliths pierce the rainforest canopy of Sarawak, an ancient limestone karst landscape reveals one of Southeast Asia's most biodiverse strongholds. Soaring peaks cloaked in…
VIEW NATIONAL PARKHat Noppharat Thara-Mu Ko Phi Phi National Park
Ao Nang, Thailand
+253 birds+9 mammals
Where limestone karsts rise dramatically from turquoise waters, Hat Noppharat Thara-Mu Ko Phi Phi National Park unfolds across a mosaic of beach, mangrove forest, and island…
VIEW NATIONAL PARKKaziranga National Park
Kohora, India
+422 birds+26 mammals
Dawn breaks over the floodplains of the Brahmaputra, where tall grasslands stretch endlessly beneath monsoon-heavy skies. This sprawling wilderness of northeastern Assam is a mosaic of…
VIEW NATIONAL PARKKerinci Seblat National Park
Kerinci, Indonesia
+228 birds+16 mammals
Across nearly 67,000 square kilometres of Sumatra's spine, a mountainous realm of equatorial rainforest rises from steaming lowlands to volcanic peaks shrouded in cloud. Kerinci Seblat…
VIEW NATIONAL PARKKhao Laem National Park
Sangkhla Buri District, Thailand
+197 birds
Where the Vajiralongkorn Reservoir sprawls across the forested valleys of Kanchanaburi's northern borderlands, Khao Laem National Park protects a landscape where limestone ridges rise dramatically from…
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