| Thick-billed
Cuckoo |
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|
Dikbekkoekoek |
Alternate name |
| Pachycoccyx audeberti |
Scientific name |
| Cuculiformes |
Order |
| Cuculidae |
Family |
| 36cm |
Length |
| Moist forest, dry
savanna in Angola, Benin, Botswana, Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Congo, Democratic
Rep. of Congo, Cote
d'Ivoire, Gabon, Ghana, Guinea, Kenya, Liberia, Madagascar, Malawi, Mali,
Mozambique, Namibia, Nigeria, Rwanda, Sierra Leone, South Africa, Sudan,
Swaziland, Tanzania, Uganda, Zambia, and Zimbabwe |
Habitat
Range |
| (1)2/host incubation
13days evicts eggs -young in a few days, fledges 60 days. |
Clutch |
| Large insects. |
Food Diet |
| Usual host is the
Red-billed Helmetshrike. |
Habits |
| 1193 |
World Number |
Least
Concern |
Status |
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