Black Cuckoo (Cuculus clamosus)

Angola, Botswana, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Chad, Congo [The Democratic Republic of the], Congo [The Democratic Republic of the], C�te dIvoire, Equatorial Guinea, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Gabon, Ghana, Guinea, Kenya, Liberia, Malawi, Mozambique, Namibia, Nigeria, Rwanda, Sierra Leone, South Africa, Sudan, Swaziland, Tanzania [United Republic of], Togo, Uganda, Zambia, Zimbabwe.

Vagrant to Gambia, Mali, Senegal, Somalia.

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
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Black Cuckoo (Cuculus clamosus) [XC341272]
by Hans Matheve from Bobiri Butterfly Reserve, South Africa (song)

Black Cuckoo (Cuculus clamosus) [XC346760]
by Hans Matheve from Kakum NP (walkway), Namibia (song)

Subspecies
Formerly listed as Cuculus cafer, but that name was officially suppressed, largely due to confusion with Levaillant's Cuckoo (Clamator levaillantii). Birds from southern Ethiopia to Uganda, western Kenya and north-western Tanzania sometimes separated as jacksoni, but they in fact represent an intermediate or intergrade population.

The following 2 subspecies are recognised:

gabonensis Lafresnaye, 1853 - Liberia, Ghana, Nigeria and northern Zaire east to southern Sudan, Uganda and western Kenya.
clamosus Latham, 1801 - Ethiopia, eastern and central Kenya, Tanzania, southern Zaire and Angola south to north-eastern Namibia, Zimbabwe and eastern South Africa; migrates to equatorial western Africa, where recorded irregularly west to Senegambia.

References
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Files:

JPG files for Black Cuckoo (Cuculus clamosus) - 10 files

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