Klaas's Cuckoo
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| Chrysococcyx klaas (Stephens, 1815) |
The Klaas's Cuckoo (Chrysococcyx klaas) is a species of cuckoo in the Cuculidae family. It is found in Angola, Benin, Botswana, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Chad, Republic of the Congo, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Ivory Coast, Equatorial Guinea, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Gabon, Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Kenya, Liberia, Malawi, Mali, Mauritania, Mozambique, Namibia, Nigeria, Rwanda, Sao Tomé and Principe, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Somalia, South Africa, Sudan, Swaziland, Tanzania, Togo, Uganda, Yemen, Zambia, and Zimbabwe.
The species was named by French explorer François Le Vaillant after his Khoikhoi servant. Le Vaillant was the only colonial biologist to name a bird species after local people.
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- BirdLife International (2004). Chrysococcyx klaas. 2006 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Downloaded on 24 July 2007.
- Beolens, B & Watkins. M, (2004). Whose Bird?: Common Bird Names and the People They Commemorate Yale University Press. ISBN: 978-0300103595
