Cuckoos (Cuculidae)
Thick-billed Cuckoo (Pachycoccyx audeberti) - HBW 4, p. 548
French: Coucou d'Audebert
German: Dickschnabelkuckuck
Spanish: Críalo Piquigrueso
Taxonomy: Cuculus Audeberti Schlegel, 1879, Ambodikilo, Antongil Bay, Madagascar.
Three subspecies recognized.
Subspecies and Distribution:
- brazzae (Oustalet, 1886) - Sierra Leone patchily through Ghana, Nigeria and Cameroon to Congo and W Zaire.
- validus (Reichenow, 1879) - E Zaire to SE Kenya and Tanzania, and S through Malawi, Zambia, Zimbabwe and Mozambique to E Transvaal.
- audeberti (Schlegel, 1879) - Madagascar.
- Least Concern Enlarge map
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A bird in flight
Locality Mole National Park, Northern Region, Ghana
Chris and Megan Perkins 21 February 2011 22 weeks ago 2.8 -
A bird perched on top of a bush
Locality Mole National Park, Northern Region, Ghana
Chris and Megan Perkins 21 February 2011 22 weeks ago 2.8 -
This adult bird was recorded on the Tropical Birding Ghana Set Departure Tour this March. It responded allergically to playback
Locality Mole National Park, Northern Region, Ghana (ssp brazzae)
Christian Boix Hinzen 10 April 2011 31 weeks ago 2.7
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