Red-chested
Cuckoo |
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Bird Orders |
|
Piet-my-vrou (South Africa) |
Alternate name |
| Cuculus
solitarius |
Scientific name |
| Cuculiformes |
Order |
| Cuculidae |
Family |
| 28 to 30 cm |
Length |
| Dry savanna,
shrubland, forest, up to 3,000m in:- Angola,
Benin, Botswana,
Burkina Faso, Burundi, Cameroon, Central African
Republic, Chad, Cote d'Ivoire, Congo, Democratic Rep. of Congo,
Equatorial Guinea, Ethiopia,
Gabon, Gambia, Ghana,
Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, [Gulf of Guinea Islands:- Bioko,
] Kenya, Lesotho, Liberia, Malawi, Mali, Mozambique, Namibia, Niger, Nigeria, Rwanda, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Somalia, South Africa, Sudan, Swaziland, Tanzania, Togo, Uganda, Zambia, and Zimbabwe. |
Habitat-Altitude-Range |
| 1 - rarely 2 eggs per
host, incubation 13 - 15 days. Young evict eggs or young of host. |
Clutch |
| Insects, larvae &
some seeds. |
Food Diet |
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Habits |
| 1199 |
World Number |
Least
Concern |
Status |
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