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Pachycoccyx audeberti brazzae |
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Pachycoccyx audeberti validus |
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Coucou à gros bec |
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Thick-billed Cuckoo |
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Brown with lighter underparts. No hoopoe. Large and strong beak. The young looks quite similar to the great spotted cuckoo with its back covered with white spots. However, the stripes on its head are dark rather than black. |
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Not really common in Katanga. Only a few observations are known from Dikulwe and Kasaji. |
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Parasite, it lays its eggs in Sturnidae and helmet-shrikes' nests. |
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Warning :
This database was established according to official pieces of work and with the help of famous scientists. However, there might be some errors.
The vernacular names were collected in the field and in the colonial literature from the first part of the 20th century. The monks who established the first dictionaries were not necessarily informed naturalists. Therefore, errors must have been committed.
We invite everyone who could help us to improve this working tool to contact us in order to correct us and share her/his knowledge with us.
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