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 LC    Great Spotted Cuckoo* Id (Atlas):
    Clamator glandarius

Description (10)
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Family
Cuculidae (Cuckoos)

Size
39 cm

First Described (Guide)
(Linnaeus, 1758)

Habitat
Dry savanna. From 500 - 2,000 m.

Range (Guide)
Albania (B), Algeria, Angola, Botswana, Bulgaria (B), Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Chad, Congo [The Democratic Republic of the], Côte dIvoire, Croatia (Local Name: Hrvatska) (B), Cyprus (B), Egypt, Eritrea, Ethiopia, France (B), Gambia, Ghana, Gibraltar, Greece (B) (P), Guinea, Guinea-bissau, Iran [Islamic Republic of] (B), Iraq (B) (NB), Israel (B), Italy (B), Jordan (P), Kenya, Lebanon (B), Lesotho, Liberia, Macedonia [The Former Yugoslav Republic of] (B), Malawi, Mali, Malta, Mauritania, Montenegro (B), Morocco, Mozambique, Namibia, Niger, Nigeria, Portugal (B), Rwanda, Saudi Arabia, Senegal, Serbia (B), Sierra Leone, Somalia, South Africa, Spain (B) (NB), Sudan, Swaziland, Tanzania [United Republic of], Togo, Tunisia, Turkey (B), Uganda, Zambia, Zimbabwe.

Vagrant to Austria, Bahrain, Belgium, Benin, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Burundi, Congo [The Democratic Republic of the], Denmark, Djibouti, Equatorial Guinea, Finland, Gabon, Germany, Ireland, Kuwait, Libyan Arab Jamahiriya, Moldova [Republic of], Netherlands Antilles, Norway, Oman, Poland, Qatar, Seychelles, Slovenia, Sweden, Switzerland, Syrian Arab Republic, Turkmenistan, United Kingdom, Yemen.

Berian Peninsula, southern France and western Italy; Turkey and Cyprus east to northern Iraq and western Iran, and south through Middle East to Egypt; also sub-Saharan Africa from Senegal and Liberia east to Sudan, Eritrea, Ethiopia, northern Somalia and Kenya, and south to Tanzania, Angola and South Africa. Virtually all populations winter in Africa; regular in small numbers in southern Spain.
 
Rarity Status
Currently this species is not classified as a rarity in this country OR information has not been updated.

Population
Estimated population is 500,000 - 5,000,000 (2010).

Status LC
For more information see BirdLife International Species Factsheet.

Voice
Xeno-Canto Sound Files (more (273)...)

 
Great Spotted Cuckoo (Clamator glandarius) [XC797553]
     by Feliu L\u00f3pez i Gelats from Pla\u00e7a Vila VNG - Catalunya, Spain (nocturnal flight call)

 
Great Spotted Cuckoo (Clamator glandarius) [XC138210]
     by Esperanza Poveda from West Jaraicejo, Extremadura, France (call)

Subspecies
A smaller subspecies, choragium, has been described from southern Africa, but breeding birds there overlap considerably in size with breeding birds in Mediterranean zone, and are not distinguishable.

No subspecies.


References
See References.


Files:
JPG files for Great Spotted Cuckoo (Clamator glandarius) - 10 files


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