The Sunda Brush Cuckoo ranges from the Malay Peninsula through the Sunda Islands, Sulawesi, and the Philippines. It uses forests and edges as well as mangroves, parks, and gardens.
Adults have a gray head, gray-brown upperparts, peachy-rufous throat and underparts, and a yellow eye-ring. Some females have a rufous hepatic form, while juveniles are barred.
It uses forest, forest edge, mangroves, parks, and gardens. In Singapore, it has been recorded laying eggs in the nest of the Malaysian Pied Fantail.
An extinction-risk assessment has not been added yet.