Great Spotted Cuckoo (Clamator glandarius)

Albania (B), Algeria, Angola, Botswana, Bulgaria (B), Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Chad, Congo [The Democratic Republic of the], C�te dIvoire, Croatia (Local Name: Hrvatska) (B), Cyprus (B), Egypt, Eritrea, Ethiopia, France (B), Gambia, Ghana, Gibraltar, Greece (B) (P), Guinea, Guinea-bissau, Iran [Islamic Republic of] (B), Iraq (B) (NB), Israel (B), Italy (B), Jordan (P), Kenya, Lebanon (B), Lesotho, Liberia, Macedonia [The Former Yugoslav Republic of] (B), Malawi, Mali, Malta, Mauritania, Montenegro (B), Morocco, Mozambique, Namibia, Niger, Nigeria, Portugal (B), Rwanda, Saudi Arabia, Senegal, Serbia (B), Sierra Leone, Somalia, South Africa, Spain (B) (NB), Sudan, Swaziland, Tanzania [United Republic of], Togo, Tunisia, Turkey (B), Uganda, Zambia, Zimbabwe.

Vagrant to Austria, Bahrain, Belgium, Benin, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Burundi, Congo [The Democratic Republic of the], Denmark, Djibouti, Equatorial Guinea, Finland, Gabon, Germany, Ireland, Kuwait, Libyan Arab Jamahiriya, Moldova [Republic of], Netherlands Antilles, Norway, Oman, Poland, Qatar, Seychelles, Slovenia, Sweden, Switzerland, Syrian Arab Republic, Turkmenistan, United Kingdom, Yemen.

Berian Peninsula, southern France and western Italy; Turkey and Cyprus east to northern Iraq and western Iran, and south through Middle East to Egypt; also sub-Saharan Africa from Senegal and Liberia east to Sudan, Eritrea, Ethiopia, northern Somalia and Kenya, and south to Tanzania, Angola and South Africa. Virtually all populations winter in Africa; regular in small numbers in southern Spain.

Population
Estimated population is 500,000 - 5,000,000 (2010).

Status LC
For more information see BirdLife International Species Factsheet.

Voice
Xeno-Canto Sound Files (more (292)...)

Great Spotted Cuckoo (Clamator glandarius) [XC786236]
by Jordi Calvet from Mandria, Paphos, Spain (nocturnal flight call)

Great Spotted Cuckoo (Clamator glandarius) [XC457277]
by Pierrick Devoucoux from Alto Guadalquivir (near Villafranca de C\u00f3rdoba), C\u00f3rdoba, Andaluc\u00eda, Spain (flight call)

Subspecies
A smaller subspecies, choragium, has been described from southern Africa, but breeding birds there overlap considerably in size with breeding birds in Mediterranean zone, and are not distinguishable.

No subspecies.

References
See References.

Files:

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