Senegal Coucal (Centropus senegalensis) [XC99659]
by Marc Anderson from Kilum Ijim Protected Area, Lake Oku, Cameroon (song)
Senegal Coucal (Centropus senegalensis) [XC872613]
by Albert Lastukhin from Kruger Park (near Kruger National Park), Mopani District Municipality, Limpopo, South Africa (call)
Subspecies
Darker rufous form "epomidis" of coastal Nigeria and also Ghana has sometimes been treated as a valid subspecies, or even as a separate species, but interbreeds freely with white-bellied form of nominate senegalensis.
The following 3 subspecies are recognised:
aegyptius (Gmelin, JF, 1788) - Egypt, from R Nile south to El Minya.
senegalensis (Linnaeus, 1766) - Senegal and Gambia east to Uganda, western Kenya, Eritrea and Somalia, and south to north-western Angola, south-central Zaire and L Victoria.
flecki Reichenow, 1893 - Eastern Angola, north-eastern Namibia and northern Botswana east through southern Zaire (Shaba), Zambia and Malawi to Zimbabwe and south-western Tanzania.