Cuckoos

Black Cuckoo

Cuculus clamosus

The Black Cuckoo (Cuculus clamosus) is a 79 g forest bird that eats mostly insects and other invertebrates. It migrates.

Family

Cuckoos

Order

Cuculiformes

Weight

79 g

Habitat

Forest

Diet

Invertebrates

Migration

Migrant

Countries recorded

22

Recorded in South Africa, Namibia, Kenya, Uganda, Zambia, Botswana, Ghana, Zimbabwe, eSwatini, Tanzania, Nigeria, Mozambique, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Eq. Guinea, Côte d'Ivoire, Cameroon, Malawi, Gabon, Republic of the Congo, Ethiopia, Rwanda, Angola.

Where to see it: Outamba-Kilimi NP (Sierra Leone); IET station (Côte d'Ivoire); LuiKotale Camp (Democratic Republic of the Congo); Bosque Científica · Selva Secondaria (Equatorial Guinea); Bosque Científica · Selva Primaria (Equatorial Guinea).

Photo: (c) Justin Ponder, some rights reserved (CC BY) via iNaturalist