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Location: Seringveld - Gauteng SA

African Cuckoo-Hawk (African Cuckoo Falcon) Aviceda cuculoides RANGE Sub-Saharan Africa. Breeds from Gambia and southern Senegal east to south-east Sudan, south-west Ethiopia and southern Kenya and south to southern Angola in the west and eastern South Africa in the east. Mainly resident but a partial-migrant in the east and south. In coastal East Africa occurs mainly June-December. HABITAT Forest, woodland and secondary-growth, usually stays within dense cover except in display flight above forest. SUBSPECIES Three-four subspecies recognised: nominate race is found from Senegal to Nigeria and Ethiopia to northern Zaire, darker and more heavily barred batesi from Sierra Leone to western Zaire and verreauxi, larger, with white bars on chestnut underwing, from Angola to Kenya and south to South Africa. Birds from north-east Zaire are sometimes separated as emini.