Yellow-throated Cuckoo (Chrysococcyx flavigularis)

Other Names (World)
Yellow-throated Cuckoo, Yellow-throated Green Cuckoo

Family
Cuculidae (Cuckoos)

Size
18 cm

First Described (Guide)
Shelley, 1880

Habitat
Subtropical and tropical lowland moist forest.

Range (Guide)

Cameroon, Central African Republic, Congo [The Democratic Republic of the], Congo [The Democratic Republic of the], C�te dIvoire, Equatorial Guinea, Gabon, Ghana, Liberia, Nigeria, Sierra Leone, Sudan, Togo, Uganda.

Forest zone from Sierra Leone and Ghana through Nigeria, southern Cameroon and Gabon to Zaire, south-western Sudan and south-western Uganda.

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 (12)...)

Yellow-throated Cuckoo (Chrysococcyx flavigularis) [XC641635]
by GO-AWAY-BIRDING with Michael Mills from Parc National de la For\u00eat du Banco, Abidjan, Ivory Coast (call)

Yellow-throated Cuckoo (Chrysococcyx flavigularis) [XC399978]
by Patrik \u00c5berg from Atewa Range, Ghana, Ghana (song)

Subspecies
Birds in Cameroon, Zaire and Uganda recently described as subspecies parkesi based on darker belly and undertail-coverts of a few female and young male specimens, but most appear to be indistinguishable from those in west of range.

No subspecies.

References
See References.

Files:

JPG files for Yellow-throated Cuckoo (Chrysococcyx flavigularis) - 10 files

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