Senegal Coucal (Centropus senegalensis)

Other Names (World)
Senegal Coucal, Rufous-bellied Coucal (epomidis)

Family
Cuculidae (Cuckoos)

Size
41 cm

First Described (Guide)
(Linnaeus, 1766)

Range (Guide)

Angola, Benin, Botswana, Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Chad, Congo [The Democratic Republic of the], Congo [The Democratic Republic of the], C�te dIvoire, Egypt, Ethiopia, Gabon, Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea-bissau, Kenya, Liberia, Malawi, Mali, Mauritania, Mozambique, Namibia, Niger, Nigeria, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Somalia, South Africa, Sudan, Tanzania [United Republic of], Togo, Uganda, Zambia, Zimbabwe.

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 (54)...)

Senegal Coucal (Centropus senegalensis) [XC341752]
by Lars Lachmann from Cairo, Egypt (call)

Senegal Coucal (Centropus senegalensis) [XC523704]
by Derek Solomon from Cacheu, Cacheu, Cacheu, Guinea-Bissau (song)

Subspecies
Darker rufous form "epomidis" of coastal Nigeria and also Ghana has sometimes been treated as a valid subspecies, or even as a separate species, but interbreeds freely with white-bellied form of nominate senegalensis.

The following 3 subspecies are recognised:

aegyptius (Gmelin, JF, 1788) - Egypt, from R Nile south to El Minya.
senegalensis (Linnaeus, 1766) - Senegal and Gambia east to Uganda, western Kenya, Eritrea and Somalia, and south to north-western Angola, south-central Zaire and L Victoria.
flecki Reichenow, 1893 - Eastern Angola, north-eastern Namibia and northern Botswana east through southern Zaire (Shaba), Zambia and Malawi to Zimbabwe and south-western Tanzania.

References
See References.

Files:

JPG files for Senegal Coucal (Centropus senegalensis) - 10 files

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