Klaas's Cuckoo (Chrysococcyx klaas)
About the Klaas's Cuckoo
Klaas's cuckoo (Chrysococcyx klaas) is a species of cuckoo in the family Cuculidae which is native to the wooded regions of sub-Saharan Africa. The specific name honours Klaas, the Khoikhoi man who collected the type specimen. The species was named Le Coucou de Klaas by French explorer François Le Vaillant in 1806, in his book Histoire naturelle des oiseaux d'Afrique in recognition of his Khoikhoi servant and assistant, named Klaas, who found the type specimen. Le Vaillant wrote:.mon ami Klaas. Recois l'hommage que je t'adresse ici. Puissent les naturalistes conserver à l'espèce que je vais décrire, le nom que je lui donne, et consacre ainsi les services que tu m'as rendus: ils me prouveront par là que mes travaux ont eu quelque prix à leurs yeux.
A real field recording of the Klaas's Cuckoo. Press play and focus on the rhythm and pitch of each phrase.
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Our streaming copies are mirrored from the original xeno-canto file and transcoded to 96 kbps mono — a modification, so we note it here; the licence for each recording is named in its credit below.
2 recordings on this page · licensed CC BY-SA ×2 · mirrored on this server, free for commercial reuse · recorded in Cameroon, Ethiopia, Ghana, Kenya, Malawi, Namibia and elsewhere · xeno-canto lists 85 recordings for this species in total.
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