Adult © Robert Johnson
Adult © Greg Griffith
Juvenile © Tyler Davis
Adult © Holger Teichmann

White-browed Coucal Centropus superciliosus

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Identification

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A large, robust, ungainly cuckoo with rufous wings and a long, broad tail. The underparts and back are streaked, and it has a distinctive white eyebrow. The rump and upper tail coverts are barred, unlike other coucals. It often moves clumsily, preferring to clamber about in rank vegetation or walk on the ground foraging for insects or small vertebrates. Its flight is labored and heavy. This species uses a wide variety of habitats with a thick understory, including savanna, woodland, forest edge, and wetlands. The song is a descending bubbling series, “bu-bu-bu bu bu bu bu”, that falls and then rises in pitch.

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