The Philippine Hawk-Cuckoo is a Philippine endemic with a rufous breast and white belly. It eats insects, especially caterpillars, and is a brood parasite.
The sexes are similar. A grey head, white throat, bright rufous breast and white belly distinguish adults; juveniles have a blackish head and a rufous wash on the chest.
It uses mossy forest through dipterocarp forest in the Philippines and is recorded up to about 2,400 m. It eats insects, mainly caterpillars, and also takes berries. It lays its eggs in other birds’ nests, leaving them to raise the young.
Adults have a yellow eye-ring.
An extinction-risk assessment has not been added yet.