Angola, Botswana, Burundi, Congo [The Democratic Republic of the], Ethiopia, Kenya, Malawi, Mozambique, Namibia, Rwanda, Somalia, South Africa, Sudan, Swaziland, Tanzania [United Republic of], Uganda, Zambia, Zimbabwe.
Southern Sudan and south-western Ethiopia south to Uganda, Kenya and southern Somalia, thence south to southern DRCongo, Angola, northern Namibia, northern and eastern Botswana and northern South Africa and Swaziland, southern along coast to Western Cape.
Population
Estimated population is unknown (2010).
Black Cuckooshrike (Campephaga flava) [XC202651]
by Alan Collett from Xanadu Farm, Lusaka, Zambia (song)
Black Cuckooshrike (Campephaga flava) [XC338976]
by Tim Cockcroft from Kasanka National Park, Northern Province, Zambia (song)
Subspecies
No subspecies.
Forms a superspecies with Petit's Cuckooshrike (Campephaga petiti) and Red-shouldered Cuckooshrike (Campephaga phoenicea). Possible hybridization with Petit's Cuckooshrike (Campephaga petiti) in north-western Angola and eastern DRCongo (L Kivu) is suggested on the basis of observations of females or young males having barred underparts with a strong yellow wash. Where breeding range overlaps with that of Red-shouldered Cuckooshrike (Campephaga phoenicea) (in south-western Ethiopia and western Kenya), no intermediate males have been reported; some females of present species from central and eastern Kenya (outside range of Petit's Cuckooshrike (Campephaga petiti)) have yellow in tail intermediate in extent between typical females of the two species; in areas where males and females of both species occur, all three female tail patterns are found, but differences are not clearly enough defined to point to further intergradation, although interbreeding may indeed occur.
BirdLife International Species Factsheet