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
- No videos available yet
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adult perched
Locality Kalakpa Resource Reserve, Volta Region, Ghana (ssp brazzae)
Nik Borrow 21 February 2013 9 weeks ago 4 -
A bird in flight
Locality Mole National Park, Northern Region, Ghana
Chris and Megan Perkins 21 February 2011 1 year 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 1 year 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 1 year ago 2.7
- No sound recordings available yet
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