white-crowned cuckoo

{{short description|Species of bird}}

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| name = White-crowned cuckoo

| image = Cacomantis leucolophus.jpg

| status = LC

| status_system = IUCN3.1

| status_ref = {{cite iucn | author = BirdLife International | author-link = BirdLife International | title = Caliechthrus leucolophus | volume= 2016 | page=e.T22684032A93012243 | year=2016 | doi=10.2305/IUCN.UK.2016-3.RLTS.T22684032A93012243.en }}

| genus = Caliechthrus

| parent_authority = Cabanis & Heine 1862

| species = leucolophus

| authority = (Müller, S, 1840)

| synonyms = Cacomantis leucolophus

}}

The white-crowned cuckoo or white-crowned koel (Caliechthrus leucolophus) is a species of cuckoo in the family Cuculidae. It was formerly placed in the genus Cacomantis but is now the only species placed in the genus Caliechthrus. It is found in New Guinea and neighbouring Salawati Island.

It was originally described in 1840 by the German naturalist Salomon Müller as Cuculus leucolophus.{{cite book | last=Müller | first=Salomon | author-link=Salomon Müller | date=1840 | chapter=Bijdragen tot de kennis van Nieuw-Guinea | title=Verhandelingen over de Natuurlijke Geschiedenis der Nederlandsche Overzeesche Bezittingen | volume=1. Land-en Volkenkunde | location=Leiden | publisher=In commissie bij. S. en J. Luchtmans en C.C. van der Hoek | pages=22, 233 | language=nl | chapter-url=https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/56901835 }}{{ cite book | editor-last=Peters | editor-first=James Lee | editor-link=James L. Peters | year=1940 | title=Check-List of Birds of the World | volume=4 | publisher=Harvard University Press | location=Cambridge, Massachusetts | page=35 | url=https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/14476487 }}