Burchell's Coucal

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When to see the Burchell's Coucal

One bar for each month, and every month is filled: this bird is recorded here in all twelve. The wide bar is November, the month with the most records.

Where to see the Burchell's Coucal

The map shades 10 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 Lesotho.

About the Burchell's Coucal

Burchell's coucal is a species of cuckoo in the family Cuculidae. It is found in the southeastern parts of sub-Saharan Africa. It inhabits areas with thick cover afforded by rank undergrowth and scrub, including in suitable coastal regions. Common names include gewone vleiloerie in Afrikaans and umGugwane or uFukwe in Zulu. It is sometimes considered a subspecies of the white-browed coucal, which replaces it to the north and west. The juvenile plumages and calls of the two taxa are hardly distinguishable. The species is named after the British naturalist William John Burchell.

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Easily confused with

Sunda CoucalCentropus nigrorufusThe Sunda coucal, also known as the Javanese lathe, is a cuckoo species in the family Cuculidae that is endemic to Java, Indonesia. Black-hooded CoucalCentropus steeriiThe black-hooded coucal is a species of cuckoo in the family Cuculidae. Biak CoucalCentropus chalybeusThe Biak coucal is a species of cuckoo in the family Cuculidae.