Data Sheet Info

Common Cuckoo, Cuculus canorus, is a species of cuckoo found in cropland, wetland and woodland and forest ecosystems.

Cuculus canorus has a breeding population size of 2300000-3840000 calling males and a breeding range size of 3990000 square kilometres in the EU27. The breeding population trend in the EU27 is Stable in the short term and Uncertain in the long term.

The EU population status of Cuculus canorus was assessed as Secure, because the species does not meet any of the IUCN Red List criteria for threatened or Near Threatened, or the criteria for Depleted or Declining (the EU27 population or range has not declined by 20% or more since 1980).