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 LC    Red-chested Cuckoo* Id (Atlas):
    Cuculus solitarius

Description (10)
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Family
Cuculidae (Cuckoos)

Size
30 cm

First Described (Guide)
Stephens, 1815

Range (Guide)
Angola, Benin, Botswana, Burundi, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Chad, Congo [The Democratic Republic of the], Congo [The Democratic Republic of the], Côte dIvoire, Equatorial Guinea, Ethiopia, Gabon, Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea-bissau, Kenya, Lesotho, Liberia, Malawi, Mozambique, Nigeria, Rwanda, Senegal, Sierra Leone, South Africa, Sudan, Swaziland, Tanzania [United Republic of], Togo, Uganda, Zambia, Zimbabwe.

Vagrant to Mali, Namibia, Somalia.

Senegal through Nigeria to southern Sudan and Ethiopia, and south through Zaire, Angola, Zambia, Zimbabwe and Mozambique to southern South Africa; Bioko.
 
Population
Estimated population is unknown (2010).

Status LC
For more information see BirdLife International Species Factsheet.

Voice
Xeno-Canto Sound Files (more (186)...)

 
Red-chested Cuckoo (Cuculus solitarius) [XC118219]
     by Josh Engel from Xanadu Farm, Lusaka, Zambia (song)

 
Red-chested Cuckoo (Cuculus solitarius) [XC208451]
     by Martin St-Michel from Grahamstown (near Alicedale), Western District, Eastern Cape, South Africa (song)

Subspecies
Population on Bioko (Fernando Póo), off Cameroon, sometimes treated as separate subspecies magnirostris, on account of larger bill, but shows no other differences and probably does not merit recognition.

No subspecies.


References
See References.


Files:
JPG files for Red-chested Cuckoo (Cuculus solitarius) - 10 files


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