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Dusky Long-tailed Cuckoo

Cercococcyx mechowi

Not Evaluated · IUCN Red List

NENot EvaluatedInvertebratesForestSmall · 56 g
Dusky Long-tailed Cuckoo (Cercococcyx mechowi), photo 1
Photo: Mulyowa Elly Kasozi · CC BY 4.0
Dusky Long-tailed Cuckoo (Cercococcyx mechowi), photo 2
Photo: Mulyowa Elly Kasozi · CC BY 4.0

What the Dusky Long-tailed Cuckoo sounds like

Sonogram of the Dusky Long-tailed Cuckoo: time runs left to right, pitch bottom to top, and the brighter the mark the louder the sound.
Recorded by paulo kivuyo · Call, song · Minziro, Missenyi, Kagera Region, Tanzania · CC BY-SA 4.0 · via xeno-canto

ID tip

The dusky long-tailed cuckoo is about 33 cm (13 in) long and weighs 50–61 g (1.8–2.2 oz). The head, nape and upperparts are dark brown, washed sooty-grey and with a purple-blue iridescence. The wings are dark brown, with buff and white spots. The underparts are white, with blackish-brown bars, and the vent is buff. The tail is long and graduated. The eyes are dark brown, the beak is greenish-black and the feet are yellow. The male and female are alike. The juvenile bird has a blackish throat and rufous bars on its upperparts.

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When to see the Dusky Long-tailed Cuckoo

One bar for each month. Filled bars are the 10 months with records; pale bars are months with none. The wide bar is July, the month with the most records.

Where to see the Dusky Long-tailed Cuckoo

Regular rangeRare visitor

The map shades 13 countries with regular records, and 2 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.

Uganda Ghana Côte d’Ivoire Congo - Brazzaville Equatorial Guinea Nigeria Cameroon Angola Central African Republic Gabon Congo - Kinshasa Tanzania Sierra Leone

Recorded as a rare visitor in Liberia, Guinea.

About the Dusky Long-tailed Cuckoo

The dusky long-tailed cuckoo is a species of cuckoo in the family Cuculidae. It is found in forests in Central Africa. The IUCN has assessed it as a least-concern species.

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Easily confused with

Olive Long-tailed Cuckoo (Cercococcyx olivinus) Olive Long-tailed CuckooCercococcyx olivinusThe olive long-tailed cuckoo is a species of cuckoo in the family Cuculidae. Barred Long-tailed Cuckoo (Cercococcyx montanus) Barred Long-tailed CuckooCercococcyx montanusThe barred long-tailed cuckoo is a species of cuckoo in the family Cuculidae.

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