Black Coucal (Centropus grillii)

Other Names (World)
Black Coucal, African Black Coucal, Black-chested Coucal

Family
Cuculidae (Cuckoos)

Size
38 cm

First Described (Guide)
Hartlaub, 1861

Range (Guide)

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

Vagrant to Niger.

Senegal, Gambia and Ivory Coast through northern Cameroon and Gabon to Ethiopia and Kenya, and south through southern & eastern Zaire to Angola, Zambia, Malawi, northern Zimbabwe, Mozambique and north-eastern South Africa (north-eastern Natal).

Population
Estimated population is unknown (2010).

Status LC
For more information see BirdLife International Species Factsheet.

Voice
Xeno-Canto Sound Files (more (10)...)

Black Coucal (Centropus grillii) [XC739492]
by Niall Perrins from Pian Upe National Park, Uganda (call)

Black Coucal (Centropus grillii) [XC183956]
by Derek Solomon from Kruger National Park (near Kruger Park), Ehlanzeni, Mpumalanga, South Africa (call)

Subspecies
Sometimes regarded as conspecific with Madagascar Coucal (Centropus toulou), but voices of the two differ. Has also been considered possibly conspecific with Lesser Coucal (Centropus bengalensis), but their ranges are highly disjunct and, again, vocalizations apparently differ.

No subspecies.

References
See References.

Files:

JPG files for Black Coucal (Centropus grillii) - 10 files

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