Klaas's Cuckoo - BirdForum Opus

Chrysococcyx klaas

Photo by Scottishdude
The GambiaWest Africa, March, 2010

Identification

Length 16-18 cm.

Adult male: Glossy-green upper parts with a white patch behind the eye. Under parts white.

Adult female: Bronzy-brown above and white with fine brown bars below.

Distribution

Africa and southern Arabian Peninsula: Angola, Benin, Botswana, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Chad, Congo, Ivory Coast, Equatorial Guinea, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Gabon, Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Kenya, Liberia, Malawi, Mali, Mauritania, Mozambique, Namibia, Nigeria, Rwanda, Sao Tome and Principe, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Somalia, South Africa, Sudan, Swaziland, Tanzania, Togo, Uganda, Yemen, Zambia, and Zimbabwe

Male Cape Batis feeding juvenile
Photo by Alan Manson
Slanghoek, Western Cape, South Africa, January 2009

Taxonomy

Monotypic.

Habitat

Forest, woodland, savanna, parks and gardens.

Behaviour

Breeding

A brood parasite. Hosts include Batises, small warblers and sunbirds.

References

1. Hockey, PAR, WRJ Dean, and PG Ryan, eds. 2005. Roberts' Birds of Southern Africa. 7th ed. Cape Town: John Voelcker Bird Book Fund. ISBN 978-0620340533
2. Sinclair, I and P Ryan. 2003. Birds of Africa South of the Sahara. Princeton: Princeton Univ. Press. ISBN 978-0691118154

• List of references

Recommended Citation

• BirdForum Opus contributors. (2021) Klaas's Cuckoo. In: BirdForum, the forum for wild birds and birding. Retrieved 23 September 2021 from https://www.birdforum.net/wiki/Klaas%27s_Cuckoo

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