Cuckoos
Order: Cuculiformes Family: Cuculidae
- Pied Cuckoo, Clamator jacobinus
- Levaillant's Cuckoo, Clamator levaillantii
- Great Spotted Cuckoo, Clamator glandarius
- Red-chested Cuckoo, Cuculus solitarius
- Black Cuckoo, Cuculus clamosus (A)
- Common Cuckoo, Cuculus canorus
- African Cuckoo, Cuculus gularis
- Klaas's Cuckoo, Chrysococcyx klaas
- African Emerald Cuckoo, Chrysococcyx cupreus (A)
- Dideric Cuckoo, Chrysococcyx caprius
- Yellowbill, Ceuthmochares aereus
- Black Coucal, Centropus grillii
- Senegal Coucal, Centropus senegalensis
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“Clandestine steps upon imagined stairs
Climb through the night, because his cuckoos call.”
—Wallace Stevens (1879–1955)
“Hark, hark, with what a pretty throat
Poor robin-redbreast tunes his note;
Hark, how the jolly cuckoos sing
Cuckoo—to welcome in the spring!
Cuckoo—to welcome in the spring!”
—John Lyly (1553–1606)