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 LC    Thick-billed Cuckoo* Id (Atlas):
    Pachycoccyx audeberti

Description (10)
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Family
Cuculidae (Cuckoos)

Size
36 cm

First Described (Guide)
(Schlegel, 1879)

Habitat
Subtropical and tropical lowland moist forest, dry savanna.

Range (Guide)
Angola, Benin, Central African Republic, Congo [The Democratic Republic of the], Congo [The Democratic Republic of the], Côte dIvoire, Gabon, Guinea, Kenya, Liberia, Madagascar, Malawi, Mozambique, Nigeria, Rwanda, Sierra Leone, South Africa, Swaziland, Tanzania [United Republic of], Uganda, Zambia, Zimbabwe.

Vagrant to Botswana, Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Ghana, Sudan.

Rarity Status
Currently this species is not classified as a rarity in this country OR information has not been updated.

Population
Estimated population is unknown (2010).

Status LC
For more information see BirdLife International Species Factsheet.

Voice
Xeno-Canto Sound Files (more (9)...)

 
Thick-billed Cuckoo (Pachycoccyx audeberti) [XC617097]
     by Peter Boesman from Djomo, Bayanga, Sangha-Mbare, Central African Republic (call, flight call)

 
Thick-billed Cuckoo (Pachycoccyx audeberti) [XC339340]
     by Peter Boesman from Mutinondo Wilderness area, Northern Province, Zambia (song)

Subspecies
The following 3 subspecies are recognised:

  • brazzae (Oustalet, 1886)   -  Sierra Leone patchily through Ghana, Nigeria and Cameroon to Congo and western Zaire.
  • validus (Reichenow, 1879)   -  Eastern Zaire to south-eastern Kenya and Tanzania, and south through Malawi, Zambia, Zimbabwe and Mozambique to eastern Transvaal.
  • audeberti (Schlegel, 1879)   -  Madagascar.



References
See References.


Files:
JPG files for Thick-billed Cuckoo (Pachycoccyx audeberti) - 10 files


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