| Levaillant's
Cuckoo |
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Striped Cuckoo,
Oxylophus levaillantii |
Alternate name |
| Clamator
levaillantii |
Scientific name |
| Cuculiformes |
Order |
| Cuculidae |
Family |
| 38 - 40cm |
Length |
| Angola, Benin, Botswana, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Cameroon, Central African
Republic, Chad, Cote d'Ivoire, Congo, Democratic Rep. of
Congo, Ethiopia, Gabon, Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Eritrea, Equatorial Guinea, Kenya, Liberia, Malawi, Mali, Mauritania, Mozambique, Namibia, Niger, Nigeria, Rwanda, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Somalia, South Africa, Sudan, Swaziland, Tanzania, Togo, Uganda, Zambia & Zimbabwe. |
Habitat-Altitude-Range |
| Usually 1 egg per nest
but up to 7. Incubation 11days. |
Clutch |
| Insects & larvae. |
Food Diet |
| Eggs & young of
host not ejected but young are trampled to death. |
Habits |
| 1190 |
World Number |
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Status |
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