The Zoochat Photographic Guide to Turacos, Cuckoos, Bustards and the Hoatzin.

Caliechthrus


White-crowned Cuckoo (Caliechthrus leucolophus)

The range of this species extends throughout the West Papuan Islands and New Guinea; largely absent from the mountainous central spine and southern lowlands.

Monotypic; no photographs of this species are present in the Zoochat gallery.
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Cercococcyx


Dusky Long-tailed Cuckoo (Cercococcyx mechowi)

The range of this species extends patchily and in a highly-fragmented distribution of disjunct populations throughout coastal West Africa and the Congo Basin, from Sierra Leone in the west to the Albertine Rift of Uganda, Rwanda and Burundi in the east, and south to northwest Angola.

Monotypic; no photographs of this species are present in the Zoochat gallery.


Olive Long-tailed Cuckoo (Cercococcyx olivinus)

The range of this species extends patchily throughout coastal West Africa and the Congo Basin from Sierra Leone in the west to northeast DRC and adjacent western Uganda in the east, and south to northern Angola and northwest Zambia.

Monotypic; no photographs of this species are present in the Zoochat gallery.


Barred Long-tailed Cuckoo (Cercococcyx montanus)

The range of this species extends patchily throughout eastern Africa, from southern Tanzania in the north to southeast Mozambique in the south, with disjunct populations in central Tanzania, and in the Albertine Rift of northeast DRC, western Uganda, Rwanda and Burundi; largely absent from northern Mozambique.

Two subspecies are recognised:

C. m. montanus
C. m. patulus

No photographs of this species are present in the Zoochat gallery.
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Surniculus


Fork-tailed Drongo-cuckoo (Surniculus dicruroides)

The range of this species extends throughout western India and into Sri Lanka, with summer breeding populations present in central India and in the Himalayas from northwest India to eastern Nepal.

Two subspecies are recognised:

S. d. dicruroides
S. d. stewarti

No photographs of this species are present in the Zoochat gallery.


Square-tailed Drongo-cuckoo (Surniculus lugubris)

The range of this species extends throughout much of southeast Asia, from the Himalayas of northwest India in the west to eastern China and Hainan in the east, and south from here through Indochina and the Malay Peninsula into the Greater Sundas, Bali and Palawan in the southwest Philippines.

Three subspecies are recognised:

S. l. barussarum
S. l. brachyurus - photo by @Chlidonias



S. l. lugubris


Philippine Drongo-cuckoo (Surniculus velutinus)

The range of this species extends throughout the Philippines, barring Palawan in the southwest.

Three subspecies are recognised:

S. v. chalybaeus
S. v. velutinus
S. v. suluensis

No photographs of this species are present in the Zoochat gallery.


Moluccan Drongo-cuckoo (Surniculus musschenbroeki)

The range of this species extends throughout Sulawesi, and wast into the northern Moluccas.

Monotypic; no photographs of this species are present in the Zoochat gallery.
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Hierococcyx


Dark Hawk-cuckoo (Hierococcyx bocki)

The range of this species extends throughout montane regions of Peninsular Malaysia, western Sumatra and northern Borneo.

Monotypic.

Photo by @LaughingDove




Large Hawk-cuckoo (Hierococcyx sparverioides)

The summer breeding range of this species extends from northern Pakistan in the west, through the Himalayas and southern China to eastern China and Taiwan in the east, and south throughout Indochina; wintering populations extend throughout Indochina into the Malay Peninsula, Greater and Lesser Sundas and the Philippines, and also throughout southern India.

Monotypic; no photographs of this species are present in the Zoochat gallery.


Common Hawk-cuckoo (Hierococcyx varius)

The range of this species extends throughout the Indian Subcontinent and Sri Lanka, from northern Pakistan in the west to northeast India and northwest Myanmar in the east.

Two subspecies are recognised:

H. v. varius - photo by @Chlidonias



H. v. ciceliae


Moustached Hawk-cuckoo (Hierococcyx vagans)

The range of this species extends patchily from southern Indochina into the Malay Peninsula, Sumatra and Borneo.

Monotypic; no photographs of this species are present in the Zoochat gallery.


Whistling Hawk-cuckoo (Hierococcyx nisicolor)

The summer breeding range of this species extends from Nepal in the west to southeast China and Hainan in the east, and south from here into central Indochina; wintering populations extend throughout Indochina and the Malay Peninsula, and patchily into the Greater Sundas.

Monotypic; no photographs of this species are present in the Zoochat gallery.


Malay Hawk-cuckoo (Hierococcyx fugax)

The range of this species extends throughout the Malay Peninsula into Borneo, Sumatra and western Java.

Monotypic.

Photo by @Chlidonias




Northern Hawk-cuckoo (Hierococcyx hyperythrus)

The summer breeding range of this species extends from the Russian Far East and Sakhalin in the north, through the Korean Peninsula, Japan and northeast China, to southeast China in the south; wintering populations are present in southeast China and Borneo.

Monotypic; no photographs of this species are present in the Zoochat gallery.


Philippine Hawk-cuckoo (Hierococcyx pectoralis)

The range of this species extends throughout the Philippines.

Monotypic; no photographs of this species are present in the Zoochat gallery.
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Cuculus


Sulawesi Cuckoo (Cuculus crassirostris)

Endemic to the mountains of northern and central Sulawesi.

Monotypic; no photographs of this species are present in the Zoochat gallery.


Red-chested Cuckoo (Cuculus solitarius)

The range of this species extends throughout sub-Saharan Africa from Senegal in the west to central and northwest Ethiopia in the east, and south to the Western Cape; absent from the arid southwest of southern Angola, Namibia, western South Africa and Botswana. The range south of Gabon in the west and northern Tanzania in the east represents migratory summer breeding populations.

Monotypic; no photographs of this species are present in the Zoochat gallery.


Black Cuckoo (Cuculus clamosus)

The summer breeding range of this species extends throughout sub-Saharan Africa from southern Sierra Leone in the west to Eritrea and central Ethiopia in the east, and south to the Western Cape, but absent from much of interior and western South Africa and coastal Namibia; wintering populations extend throughout equatorial West Africa, from Senegal in the west to southwest Chad in the east. Populations in coastal West Africa and the Congo Basin, extending east to western Tanzania, are resident.

Monotypic; no photographs of this species are present in the Zoochat gallery.


Indian Cuckoo (Cuculus micropterus)

The range of this species extends from the Himalayas of northeast Pakistan in the west to northeast China, the Russian Far East and the Korean Peninsula in the east, and south into the Indian Subcontinent and Sri Lanka in the west, and Indochina and the Malay Peninsula in the east, extending from here into the Greater Sundas; the north of this range represents summer breeding populations which winter in Indochina, the Malay Peninsula and the Greater Sundas - where resident populations are also present - and also into the Philippines.

Two subspecies recognised:

C. m. micropterus
C. m. concretus - photo by @Hix




Common Cuckoo (Cuculus canorus)

The summer breeding range of this species extends throughout Eurasia, from the British Isles, Iberian Peninsula and northwest Africa in the west to the Russian Far East, Japan and southeast China in the east; only patchily present in southern Asia and the Middle East. The wintering range of this species extends throughout sub-Saharan Africa barring the arid southwest and the Horn of Africa, Sri Lanka and Indochina.

C. c. canorus - photo by @ThylacineAlive



C. c. bangsi
C. c. subtelephonus
C. c. bakeri


African Cuckoo (Cuculus gularis)

The range of this species extends throughout sub-Saharan Africa, from Senegal in the west to Eritrea and central Ethiopia in the east, and south to northern Namibia in the west and northeast South Africa in the east; largely absent from coastal West Africa and the Congo Basin, and only seasonally present in the north, and south of Congo in the west and southern Tanzania in the east.

Monotypic.

Photo by @Maguari




Oriental Cuckoo (Cuculus saturatus)

The summer breeding range of this species represents a pair of disjunct populations; from European Russia in the west, through Siberia, northern Kazakhstan and Mongolia, to the Russian Far East, Japan and the Korean Peninsula in the east; and from Kashmir in the west, throughout the Himalayas, northern Myanmar and southern China to southeast China, Hainan and Taiwan in the east. Wintering populations extend from southwest Indochina, through the Malay Peninsula, the Greater and Lesser Sundas, the Philippines and the Moluccas, into New Guinea and coastal northern and eastern Australia.

Two subspecies recognised:

C. s. optatus - photo by @Hix



C. s. saturatus


Sunda Cuckoo (Cuculus lepidus)

The range of this species extends patchily from Peninsular Malaysia into the Greater and Lesser Sundas and the Moluccas.

Monotypic; no photographs of this species are present in the Zoochat gallery.


Lesser Cuckoo (Cuculus poliocephalus)

The summer breeding range of this species extends from northern Pakistan in the west, through the Himalayas, northern Myanmar and southern China to the Korean Peninsula, northeast China and Russian Far East in the east; resident in Taiwan and Hainan. Wintering populations are present in east Africa from southern Kenya in the north to east-central Mozambique in the south and west to southern DRC, and in Sri Lanka.

Monotypic.

Photo by @devilfish




Madagascar Cuckoo (Cuculus rochii)

The breeding range of this species extends throughout Madagascar, with non-breeding populations seasonally present in east Africa from the Albertine Rift and northern Zambia in the west to eastern Kenya and northern Mozambique in the east.

Monotypic; no photographs of this species are present in the Zoochat gallery.
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MUSOPHAGIDAE


This family contains 7 extant genera, as follows:

Corythaeola - Great Blue Turaco (monotypic)

Criniferoides - White-bellied Go-away-bird (monotypic)

Crinifer - Plaintain-eaters (2 species)

Corythaixoides - Bare-faced and Grey Go-away-birds (3 species)

Gallirex - Purple-crested and Ruwenzori Turacos (2 species)

Tauraco - Typical Turacos (13 species)

Musophaga - Violet and Lady Ross' Turacos (2 species)
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Corythaeola


Great Blue Turaco (Corythaeola cristata)

The range of this species extends throughout coastal West Africa and the Congo Basin, and surrounding areas of Equatorial Africa, from Guinea Bissau in the west to southwest South Sudan in the east, and south to central and western DRC; disjunct populations extend east into western Tanzania and adjacent eastern Uganda, and south into northwest Angola and southern DRC.

Monotypic.

Photo by @Joker1706


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Criniferoides


White-bellied Go-away-bird (Criniferoides leucogaster)

The range of this species extends throughout the arid savannas of the Horn of Africa and surrounding areas of northeast and eastern Africa, from Eritrea, Ethiopia and northern Somalia in the north to south-central Tanzania in the south, and west into southeast South Sudan and northeast Uganda.

Monotypic.

Photo by @betsy


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Crinifer


Eastern Plantain-eater (Crinifer zonurus)

The range of this species comprises a patchy distribution encompassing three disjunct populations; from southeast Chad into southwest Sudan; from southeast Central African Republic and southern South Sudan into the Albertine Rift and regions of Uganda, Kenya and Tanzania immediately to the east; and throughout the highlands of Ethiopia and Eritrea to the north.

Monotypic.

Photo by @ronnienl




Western Plantain-eater (Crinifer piscator)

The range of this species extends throughout much of West Africa, from southern Mauritania and Sierra Leone in the west to east-central Central African Republic and adjacent areas of southern Chad and southwest Sudan in the east; a disjunct population is present in interior western DRC and adjacent Congo.

Monotypic.

Photo by @ro6ca66


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Corythaixoides


Brown-faced Go-away-bird (Corythaixoides personatus)

The range of this species is restricted to the Ethiopian Rift Valley.

Monotypic.

Photo by @Maguari




Black-faced Go-away-bird (Corythaixoides leopoldi)

The range of this species extends from southern Uganda and southwest Kenya in the north, throughout the Albertine Rift and much of northern and central Tanzania, to northern Malawi and southeast DRC in the south.

Monotypic.

Photo by @Tomek




Grey Go-away-bird (Corythaixoides concolor)

The range of this species extends throughout much of south-central Africa, from western Angola to southern Tanzania in the north, to southeast Namibia to northeast South Africa and Swaziland in the south.

Four subspecies recognised:

C. c. molybdophanes
C. c. pallidiceps
C. c. bechuanae - photo by @Maguari



C. c. concolor - photo by @Kudu21


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Gallirex


Purple-crested Turaco (Gallirex porphyreolophus)

The range of this species extends throughout much of eastern Africa, from western and central Tanzania in the north to Swaziland and northeast South Africa in the south; a disjunct population is present in southeast Kenya.

Two subspecies are recognised:

G. p. chlorochlamys - photo by @Maguari



G. p. porphyreolophus - photo by @ThylacineAlive




Rwenzori Turaco (Gallirex johnstoni)

The range of this species is restricted to a patchy distribution throughout the Albertine Rift of east-central Africa.

Monotypic; no photographs of this species are present in the Zoochat gallery.
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Tauraco


Schalow's Turaco (Tauraco schalowi)

The range of this species extends throughout much of south-central Africa, from western Angola in the west, through Zambia and southern DRC to western Tanzania, Malawi and northwest Mozambique in the east; a disjunct population is present in northern Tanzania and adjacent southwest Kenya.

Monotypic.

Photo by @vogelcommando




Hartlaub's Turaco (Tauraco hartlaubi)

The range of this species is largely restricted to the highlands of western Kenya, extending west into northeast and eastern Uganda and south into northern Tanzania.

Monotypic.

Photo by @fofo




Black-billed Turaco (Tauraco schuettii)

The range of this species extends throughout much of central Africa, from southwest Central African Republic in the west to southern South Sudan in the east, and southwest through DRC, western Uganda, Rwanda and Burundi into northern Angola; a disjunct population exists in western Kenya.

Two subspecies are recognised:

T. s. schuettii
T. s. emini - photo by @gentle lemur




Livingstone's Turaco (Tauraco livingstonii)

The range of this species extends throughout eastern Africa from southern Tanzania in the north to northeast South Africa in the south; a disjunct population exists in eastern Burundi and adjacent western Tanzania.

Three subspecies are recognised:

T. l. reichenowi
T. l. cabanisi
T. l. livingstonii

Photo by @KevinB




Fischer's Turaco (Tauraco fischeri)

The range of this species is restricted to a narrow coastal strip of northeast Africa, from southern Somalia in the north to northeast Tanzania and Zanzibar in the south.

Two subspecies are recognised:

T. f. fischeri - photo by @Goura



T. f. zanzibaricus


Knysna Turaco (Tauraco corythaix)

The range of this species extends throughout eastern South Africa and western Swaziland, from northeast South Africa to the Western Cape.

Two subspecies are recognised:

T. c. phoebus
T. c. corythaix - photo by @Deer Forest




Green Turaco (Tauraco persa)

The range of this species extends throughout West Africa and the Congo Basin, from Senegal in the west to northeast Central African Republic and adjacent southernmost Chad in the east, and south to northernmost Angola and coastal western DRC.

Three subspecies are recognised:

T. p. buffoni - photo by @Tomek



T. p. persa - photo by @Tomek



T. p. zenkeri


White-cheeked Turaco (Tauraco leucotis)

The range of this species extends throughout Eritrea and the Ethiopian Highlands, and into eastern South Sudan.

Two subspecies are recognised:

T. l. leucotis - photo by @KevinB



T. l. donaldsoni


Ruspoli's Turaco (Tauraco ruspolii)

The range of this species is restricted to a small region of southern Ethiopia.

Monotypic; no photographs of this species are present in the Zoochat gallery.


Bannerman's Turaco (Tauraco bannermani)

Endemic to the Bamenda-Banso Highlands of northwest Cameroon.

Monotypic; no photographs of this species are present in the Zoochat gallery.


Red-crested Turaco (Tauraco erythrolophus)

The range of this species extends throughout western and central Angola.

Monotypic.

Photo by @ro6ca66




White-crested Turaco (Tauraco leucolophus)

The range of this species extends throughout much of the northern Congo Basin and adjacent areas of Equatorial Africa, from southeast Nigeria and northern Cameroon in the west to western and southwest South Sudan in the east, and south from here throughout Uganda and adjacent northeast DRC and western Kenya.

Monotypic.

Photo by @ro6ca66




Yellow-billed Turaco (Tauraco macrorhynchus)

The range of this species extends throughout coastal West Africa, from Sierra Leone in the west to northern Cameroon in the east, and south to western DRC and northwest Angola.

Two subspecies are recognised:

T. m. macrorhynchus
T. m. verreauxii

No photographs of this species are present in the Zoochat gallery.
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Musophaga


Ross's Turaco (Musophaga rossae)

The range of this species extends patchily throughout much of central and south-central Africa, from northeast DRC, Uganda and western Tanzania in the north to central Zambia in the south, and west to coastal western DRC and northern Angola; disjunct populations are present in northeast Gabon, northern Central African Republic and north-central Cameroon.

Monotypic.

Photo by @Patrick87




Violet Turaco (Musophaga violacea)

The range of this species extends throughout much of West Africa, from Senegal and Guinea in the west to northwest Cameroon in the east, with a disjunct population present in northern Central African Republic and adjacent regions of southernmost Chad.

Monotypic.

Photo by @Himimomi


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OTIDIDAE


This family contains 12 extant genera, as follows:

Tetrax - Little Bustard (monotypic)

Otis - Great Bustard (monotypic)

Chlamydotis - Houbara and MacQueen's Bustards (2 species)

Lissotis - Hartlaub's and Black-bellied Bustards (2 species)

Neotis - Ludwig's Bustard and allies (4 species)

Ardeotis - Kori Bustard and allies (4 species)

Houbaropsis - Bengal Florican (monotypic)

Sypheotides - Lesser Florican (monotypic)

Lophotis - Buff-crested Bustard and allies (3 species)

Heterotetrax - Karoo Bustard and allies (3 species)

Afrotis - Black Bustards (2 species)

Eupodotis - White-bellied and Blue Bustards (2 species)
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Tetrax


Little Bustard (Tetrax tetrax)

The summer breeding range of this species extends from France, the Iberian Peninsula and Morocco, patchily through the Mediterranean into Asia Minor, the Crimea and the Caucasus, and from here throughout Central Asia and southern Siberia to northwest China; wintering populations extend throughout the Iberian Peninsula and Mediterranean into Asia Minor and the Middle East, and patchily east into Iran and Pakistan. Populations in Morocco, the Iberian Peninsula and southern France are resident.

Monotypic.

Photo by @Tomek


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Otis


Great Bustard (Otis tarda)

The resident range of this species extends throughout the Iberian Peninsula and Morocco, and from here patchily throughout central and eastern Europe; summer breeding populations extend patchily throughout western Russia, the Caucasus and Asia Minor into Central Asia, south-central Siberia and northwest China, with a disjunct population present in northeast China, eastern Mongolia and southeast Siberia; wintering populations extend patchily from the Balkans and Asia Minor in the west, through the Middle East to Central Asia in the east, with a disjunct population in east-central China.

Two subspecies are recognised:

O. t. tarda - photo by @MagpieGoose



O. t. dybowskii - photo by @MagicYoung


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Chlamydotis


African Houbara (Chlamydotis undulata)

The range of this species extends throughout northern Africa, from the Canary Islands, Morocco and Western Sahara in the west to the Nile Valley of Egypt and Sudan in the east.

Two subspecies are recognised:

C. u. fuertaventurae
C. u. undulata

No photographs of this species are present in the Zoochat gallery.


Asian Houbara (Chlamydotis macqueenii)

The summer breeding range of this species extends from western Kazakhstan and northeast Iran in the west, throughout Central Asia, northwest China and Mongolia to northeast China in the east; wintering populations occur in central China, and in the western Indian Subcontinent and adjacent areas of Afghanistan; resident populations occur throughout the Middle East and Arabian Peninsula, and into Iran, Pakistan and southwest Central Asia.

Monotypic.

Photo by @Tomek


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