Thick-billed Cuckoo

Thick-billed Cuckoo
Conservation status
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves
Order: Cuculiformes
Family: Cuculidae
Genus: Pachycoccyx
Cabanis, 1882
Species: P. audeberti
Binomial name
Pachycoccyx audeberti
(Schlegel, 1879)

The Thick-billed Cuckoo (Pachycoccyx audeberti) is a species of cuckoo in the Cuculidae family. It is monotypic within the genus Pachycoccyx.[1] It is found in Angola, Benin, Botswana, Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Republic of the Congo, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Ivory Coast, Gabon, Ghana, Guinea, Kenya, Liberia, Madagascar, Malawi, Mozambique, Nigeria, Rwanda, Sierra Leone, South Africa, Sudan, Swaziland, Tanzania, Uganda, Zambia, and Zimbabwe.[2]

References

  1. ^ Mary Katherine Rowan (1983). "Genus Pachycoccyx Cabvanis, 1882". The Doves, Parrots, Louries, and Cuckoos of Southern Africa. Taylor & Francis. pp. 290–297. ISBN 9780908396665. http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=qrsOAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA290&lpg=PA290. 
  2. ^ BirdLife International 2004. Pachycoccyx audeberti. 2006 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Downloaded on 24 July 2007.

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