A crested coua chick at the Wildlife Conservation Society’s Central Park Zoo showing off its unique oral markings. Photo by: Julie Larsen Maher. The crested coua (Coua cristata) is native to ...

Crested couas are members of the cuckoo family and grow up to be very colorful, greenish-grey birds, with a tan-colored breast, long white-tipped purplish-blue tail feathers, and a colorful mask ...

A rare crested coua chick has hatched at the Wildlife Conservation Society's Central Park Zoo. The chick features markings inside its mouth that will fade as the bird matures.

A significant milestone was reached at Zoo Miami on March 28 as the Avian Propagation Center welcomed its first-ever hatched crested coua, zoo officials announced in a news release Wednesday.

SOUTHWEST MIAMI-DADE, FLA. (WSVN) - Zoo Miami is celebrating the historic birth of a crested coua chick, marking the first time in the zoo’s history that this rare species has hatched.