Species Details [Taxonomy: HBW - BirdLife (v3)]
LC
Pied Cuckoo*
Id (Atlas):
Clamator jacobinus
Description (10 )
Pied Cuckoo
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Other Scientific Names
Oxylophus jacobinus [Sibley and Monroe (1990, 1993)]
Other Names (World)
Jacobin Cuckoo, Pied Cuckoo, Pied Crested Cuckoo, Black-and-white Cuckoo
Family
Cuculidae (Cuckoos)
Size
31.50 - 33 cm
First Described (Guide )
(Boddaert, 1783)
Habitat
Subtropical and tropical lowland dry grassland, dry savanna. From sea-level - 3,000 m.
Angola, Bangladesh, Benin, Botswana, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Chad, China (mainland), Congo [The Democratic Republic of the], Côte dIvoire, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Gabon, Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, India, Kenya, Lesotho, Malawi (B) (NB), Mali, Mauritania, Mozambique, Myanmar, Namibia, Nepal, Niger, Nigeria, Oman, Pakistan, Rwanda, Saudi Arabia, Senegal, Somalia, South Africa, Sri Lanka, Sudan, Swaziland, Tanzania [United Republic of], Togo, Uganda, Yemen, Zambia, Zimbabwe.
Vagrant to Congo [The Democratic Republic of the], Djibouti, Sâo Tomé e Principe, Seychelles, Thailand.
Unknown to Afghanistan, Iran [Islamic Republic of] (E).
Population
Estimated population is unknown (2010).
Status LC
For more information see BirdLife International Species Factsheet .
Voice
Xeno-Canto Sound Files (more (19)... )
Listen to XC374372
Jacobin Cuckoo (Clamator jacobinus ) [XC374372 ]
by from Mysuru, Mysuru, Karnataka, India (call)
Listen to XC426173
Jacobin Cuckoo (Clamator jacobinus ) [XC426173 ]
by Lynette Rudman from Thailavaram, Kanchipuram, Tamil Nadu, India (call, song, courtship call\/song)
Subspecies
The following 3 subspecies are recognised:
serratus (Sparrman, 1786) - Southern Africa.
pica (Hemprich & Ehrenberg, 1833) - Sub-Saharan Africa south to Tanzania and Zambia, and north-western India to Nepal and Myanmar, occasionally southern Tibet, in foothills of Mt Everest.
jacobinus (Boddaert, 1783) - Southern India and Sri Lanka.
References
See References .
Files:
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For more information about the Pied Cuckoo see... BirdLife International Species Factsheet .
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