Blue Cuckooshrike

Cyanograucalus azureus

Least Concern · IUCN Red List

LCLeast ConcernInvertebratesForestCup nestSmall · 46 g

When to see the Blue Cuckooshrike

One bar for each month. Filled bars are the 8 months with records; pale bars are months with none. The wide bar is March, the month with the most records.

Where to see the Blue Cuckooshrike

Regular rangeRare visitor

The map shades 11 countries with regular records, and 1 more in a lighter tone where the bird turns up only as a stray. Everything unshaded has no records. Countries are listed below the map.

Recorded as a rare visitor in Guinea.

About the Blue Cuckooshrike

The blue cuckooshrike is a species of bird in the Cuckooshrike family, Campephagidae. It is widespread across the African tropical rainforest, from Sierra Leone and Liberia to eastern and south-western Democratic Republic of Congo. Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical dry forests and subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests.

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