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Cuculus rochii

[edit] Identifiication

Brown head, black streaks and white bars, brown upper parts, upper tail coverts are white with brown tips, tail grey brown, white throat, streaked with brown, white underside. The eyes are yellow, the cere and feet off-white. There is little size difference between the sexes.

Very similar to the Lesser Cuckoo; probably not safely distinguished in the field.

[edit] Distribution

Breeds in Madagascar and migrates to eastern Africa in the southern winter.

[edit] Taxonomy

Monotypic.

[edit] Habitat

Edges of forests, plantations, and the denser savannas and scrub land.

[edit] Behaviour

Diet includes reptiles, preferably chameleons, and insects.

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