Male © Kevin Vande Vusse eBird S44655074 Macaulay Library ML 94958291
Female © Tim Carney
Juvenile © Lynne Hertzog
Male © Michael Riffel
Male © Lars Petersson | My World of Bird Photography
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Male © Loutjie Steenberg

Diederik Cuckoo Chrysococcyx caprius

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Identification

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A small, greenish cuckoo. The male has barred flanks, white flecking on the wing, white patches in front of and behind the eye, and a distinctly red eye surrounded by a red eye-ring. The bronzy-green female has a diagnostic white patch in front of the eye, a plain back, and white patches in the wings. This common resident and migrant is not a habitat specialist, but it prefers riverine and wetland areas where its preferred brood-parasite hosts, weavers and bishops, are common. The distinctive call is a loud, rising, high-pitched “deee-deee-deee-deee-dederik”.

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