Black-throated Coucal (Centropus leucogaster)

Other Names (World)
Black-throated Coucal, Great Coucal(!)

Family
Cuculidae (Cuckoos)

Size
48 - 58 cm

First Described (Guide)
(Leach, 1814)

Habitat
Subtropical and tropical lowland moist forest.

Range (Guide)

Cameroon, Cote dIvoire, Congo [The Democratic Republic of the], Gabon, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea-bissau, Liberia, Niger, Nigeria, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Togo.

Vagrant to Mali.

Population
Estimated population is unknown (2020) and stable.

Status LC
For more information see BirdLife International Species Factsheet.

Voice
Xeno-Canto Sound Files (more (32)...)

Black-throated Coucal (Centropus leucogaster) [XC395752]
by Bram Vogels from Antwikwaa, Kakum National Park, Ghana (song)

Black-throated Coucal (Centropus leucogaster) [XC370299]
by Juha Honkala from Parc National d'Azagny, Ivory Coast (song)

Subspecies
Black-throated Coucal (Centropus leucogaster) and Neumann's Coucal (Centropus neumanni) (Sibley and Monroe 1990, 1993) have been lumped into Centropus leucogaster following Dowsett and Forbes-Watson (1993).

Range complementary to that of Gabon Coucal (Centropus anselli), suggesting that the two may be allospecies. Subspecies neumanni of Zaire has been considered to be more closely related to Gabon Coucal (Centropus anselli), and perhaps even a distinct species, based mainly on size. Size overlap occurs, but evidence unclear as sexes of specimens were not indicated.

The following 3 subspecies are recognised:

leucogaster (Leach, 1814) - Southern Senegal and Guinea-Bissau east to south-eastern Nigeria.
efulenensis Sharpe, 1904 - South-western Cameroon and northern Gabon.
neumanni Alexander, 1908 - North-eastern Zaire. Considered by some authors to be a distinct species, Neumann's Coucal (Centropus neumanni).

References
See References.

Files:

JPG files for Black-throated Coucal (Centropus leucogaster) - 10 files

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