Klaas's Cuckoo (Chrysococcyx klaas)

Family
Cuculidae (Cuckoos)

Size
16 cm

First Described (Guide)
(Stephens, 1815)

Habitat
Subtropical and tropical lowland moist forest and shrubland, dry savanna. From sea-level - 3,000 m.

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, Equatorial Guinea, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Gabon, Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea-bissau, Kenya, Liberia, Malawi, Mali, Mauritania, Mozambique, Namibia, Nigeria, Rwanda, S�o Tom� e Principe, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Somalia, South Africa, Sudan, Swaziland, Tanzania [United Republic of], Togo, Uganda, Yemen, Zambia, Zimbabwe.

Senegal east to Sudan and Ethiopia and south to South Africa, including Bioko (Fernando Póo); possibly also in south-western Arabia, where status unclear.

Population
Estimated population is unknown (2010).

Status LC
For more information see BirdLife International Species Factsheet.

Voice
Xeno-Canto Sound Files (more (79)...)

Klaas's Cuckoo (Chrysococcyx klaas) [XC378542]
by Peter de Rouw from D\u00f4mes de Fabedougou, Como\u00e9, Burkina Faso (song)

Klaas's Cuckoo (Chrysococcyx klaas) [XC519854]
by Tony Archer from Ebb & Flo area, Wilderness National Park, South Cape DC, Western Cape, South Africa (song)

Subspecies
Birds from Arabia were proposed as possible subspecies arabicus.

No subspecies.

References
See References.

Files:

JPG files for Klaass Cuckoo (Chrysococcyx klaas) - 10 files

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