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 LC    African Cuckoo* Id (Atlas):
    Cuculus gularis

Description (10)
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Other Names (World)
African Cuckoo, South African Cuckoo, Yellow-billed Cuckoo, Cuckoo

Family
Cuculidae (Cuckoos)

Size
33 cm

First Described (Guide)
Stephens, 1815

Habitat
Dry savanna. Also, subtropical and tropical lowland dry grassland, dry shrubland, temperate grassland.

Range (Guide)
Angola, Benin, Botswana, Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Chad, Congo [The Democratic Republic of the], Congo [The Democratic Republic of the], Côte dIvoire, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Gabon, Gambia, Ghana, Guinea-bissau, Kenya, Liberia, Malawi, Mali, Mauritania, Mozambique, Namibia, Niger, Nigeria, Rwanda, Sâo Tomé e Principe, Sierra Leone, Somalia, South Africa, Sudan, Swaziland, Tanzania [United Republic of], Togo, Uganda, Zambia, Zimbabwe.

Vagrant to Djibouti, Senegal.

Population
Estimated population is unknown (2010).

Status LC
Estimated populatiuon is unknown (2010).

For more information see BirdLife International Species Factsheet.

Voice
Xeno-Canto Sound Files (more (22)...)

 
African Cuckoo (Cuculus gularis) [XC348915]
     by Bram Piot from Choma, Choma, Southern Province, Zambia (call)

 
African Cuckoo (Cuculus gularis) [XC719075]
     by id from Mole National Park, Ghana (song)

Subspecies
Forms superspecies with Common Cuckoo (Cuculus canorus).

No subspecies.


References
See References.


Files:
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