Blue Cuckooshrike (Cyanograucalus azureus)

Other Names (World)
Blue Cuckooshrike, Blue Cuckoo-shrike, African Blue Cuckoo-shrike

Family
Campephagidae (Cuckooshrikes)

Size
21 cm

First Described (Guide)
(Cassin, 1852)

Habitat
Subtropical and tropical lowland moist forest.

Range (Guide)

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

Sierra Leone east, discontinuously, to southern Ivory Coast, southern Ghana and Togo, southern Nigeria and south-western Cameroon, south to Gabon, south-western PRCongo (Mayombe) and adjacent north-western Angola (Cabinda); also south-western Central African Republic and northern and central DRCongo.

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 (11)...)

Blue Cuckooshrike (Cyanograucalus azureus) [XC283740]
by Peter Boesman from Parc National d'Azagny, Ivory Coast (call)

Blue Cuckooshrike (Cyanograucalus azureus) [XC775822]
by GO-AWAY-BIRDING with Michael Mills from Kakum National Park, Ghana, Ghana (call)

Subspecies
No subspecies.

Sometimes thought to form a superspecies with Grauer's Cuckooshrike (Ceblepyris graueri).

References
See References.

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