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Photo by Jan Van den Broeck
Photo taken: St. Lucia, South Africa

Chrysococcyx cupreus

[edit] Identification

21-23cm

• Bright green upperparts
• White underwing edged brown
• Sulphur yellow underparts
• Tail feathers tipped white
• Orange eye
• Horn coloured bill

[edit] Distribution

Africa
Western Africa: Guinea-Bissau, Guinea, Sierra Leone, Liberia, Ivory Coast, Ghana, Togo, Nigeria, Niger, Chad, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Equatorial Guinea, Gabon, Congo, Angola
Eastern Africa: Sudan, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Somalia, Kenya, Uganda, Rwanda, Burundi, Tanzania, Zambia, Mozambique, Malawi
Southern Africa: Namibia, Zimbabwe, South Africa, KwaZulu-Natal, Swaziland
African Islands: Gulf of Guinea Islands, Bioko (Fernando Po), Sao Tome, Principe

[edit] Taxonomy

[edit] Subspecies

There are 3 subspecies^[1]:

• C. c. cupreus:

• Africa south of the Sahara

• C. c. intermedius:

• Bioko (Gulf of Guinea)

• C. c. insularum:

• São Tomé, Príncipe and Pagalu (Gulf of Guinea)

[edit] Habitat

Evergreen and riverine forests.

[edit] Behaviour

The diet includes caterpillars.

[edit] References

1. Clements, JF. 2008. The Clements Checklist of Birds of the World. 6th ed., with updates to December 2008. Ithaca: Cornell Univ. Press. ISBN 978-0801445019.
2. Avibase

• List of references

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