Black Cuckoo

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Black Cuckoo	Home Bird Orders
Black Cuckoo Song (Cuculus clamosus) Bram Piot XC18898 20-10-2007, South Africa		Alternate name
	Cuculus clamosus	Scientific name
	Cuculiformes	Order
	Cuculidae	Family
	29 - 30 cm	Length
	Grassland, savanna, shtubland & forest, below 2,000m, in:- Angola, Benin, Botswana, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Chad, Congo, Democratic Rep. of Congo, Cote d'Ivoire, Equatorial Guinea, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Gabon, Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Kenya, Liberia, Malawi, Mali, Mozambique, Namibia, Nigeria, Rwanda, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Somalia, South Africa, Sudan, Swaziland, Tanzania, Togo, Uganda, Zambia, Zimbabwe	Habitat-Altitude-Range
	1 egg per host, incubation 13-14 days, fledge in 20-21days, young of host are evicted within 48 hours,	Clutch
	Insects and larvae. (mainly caterpillars)	Food Diet
		Habits
	1200	World Number
	Least Concern	Status

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