Cuckoos (Cuculidae)
Olive Long-tailed Cuckoo (Cercococcyx olivinus) - HBW 4, p. 559
French: Coucou olivâtre
German: Olivkuckuck
Spanish: Cuco Colilargo Oliváceo
Taxonomy: Cercococcyx olivinus Sassi, 1912, forest on mountains bordering Rutshuru Plain, Zaire.
Forms a superspecies with C. montanus. Monotypic.
Distribution: Guinea and Ghana through S Nigeria and Cameroon to N Congo, N Zaire, W Uganda, Kasai zone (NE Angola, SW Zaire), NW Angola and NW Zambia; possibly also Sierra Leone, with two recent records from Gola Forest.
- Least Concern Enlarge map
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distant front view perched in under storey Locality Bwindi Impenetrable National Park, Uganda (Monotypic species)
Martin Kennewell 3 June 2004 1 year ago 24 sec 2 -
obscured side view in undergrowth, calling Locality Bwindi Impenetrable National Park, Uganda (Monotypic species)
Martin Kennewell 3 June 2004 1 year ago 31 sec 1.6
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Adult Olive Long-tailed Cuckoo calling from a tall tangle in Ruhija, Bwindi
Locality Ruhija, Bwindi Impenetrable National Park, Uganda
Adam Riley 1 November 2007 1 year ago 2.4
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Call. Locality Kakum National Park, Central Region, Ghana
(Monotypic species)
herve jacob 31 March 2012 1 year ago 3.5
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