African emerald cuckoo
| African emerald cuckoo | |
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| Male at St Lucia, KwaZulu-Natal | |
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| Female at Eshowe, KwaZulu-Natal | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Aves |
| Order: | Cuculiformes |
| Family: | Cuculidae |
| Genus: | Chrysococcyx |
| Species: | C. cupreus |
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Chrysococcyx cupreus (Shaw, 1792) |
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The African emerald cuckoo (Chrysococcyx cupreus) is a species of cuckoo that is native to Africa.
As a member of the Cuculidae genus, the African emerald cuckoo is an Old World Cuckoo. There are four subspecies, namely C. c. cupreus, C. c. sharpei, C. c. intermedius, and C. c. insularum.
Its range covers most of sub-Saharan Africa, including Angola, Botswana, Burundi, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Republic of the Congo, DRC, Ivory Coast, Equatorial Guinea, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Gabon, Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Kenya, Liberia, Malawi, Mali, Mozambique, Namibia, Nigeria, Rwanda, São Tomé and Príncipe, Senegal, Sierra Leone, South Africa, South Sudan, Swaziland, Tanzania, Togo, Uganda, Zambia, and Zimbabwe.
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