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 LC    Olive Long-tailed Cuckoo* Id (Atlas):
    Cercococcyx olivinus

Description (9)
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Family
Cuculidae (Cuckoos)

Size
33 cm

First Described (Guide)
Sassi, 1912

Habitat
Subtropical and tropical lowland moist forest.

Range (Guide)
Angola, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Congo [The Democratic Republic of the], Congo [The Democratic Republic of the], Côte dIvoire, Equatorial Guinea, Gabon, Ghana, Guinea, Liberia, Nigeria, Sierra Leone, Uganda, Zambia.

Guinea and Ghana through southern Nigeria and Cameroon to northern Congo, northern Zaire, western Uganda, Kasai zone (north-eastern Angola, south-western Zaire), north-western Angola and north-western Zambia; possibly also Sierra Leone, with two recent records from Gola Forest.
 
Population
Estimated population is unknown (2010).

Status LC
For more information see BirdLife International Species Factsheet.

Voice
Xeno-Canto Sound Files (more (51)...)

 
Olive Long-tailed Cuckoo (Cercococcyx olivinus) [XC53739]
     by Marcell Claassen from Kakum Nationalpark, Ghana (song)

 
Olive Long-tailed Cuckoo (Cercococcyx olivinus) [XC792203]
     by Oscar Campbell from Ankasa, Ghana (call)

Subspecies
Forms a superspecies with Barred Long-tailed Cuckoo (Cercococcyx montanus).

No subspecies.


References
See References.


Files:
JPG files for Olive Long-tailed Cuckoo (Cercococcyx olivinus) - 9 files


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