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Centropus superciliosus |
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Coucal à sourcils blancs |
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White-browed Coucal |
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Mukuku (Kiluba-PNU) ; mukuku wa mpata (Tshiluba) ; mukuta (Kibemba) | |
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White eyebrows. Head and neck are dark, streaked with white. |
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Sedentary bird, common in Katanga. |
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This coucal does not look for humid areas like its cousins. Found in dry hills as well as along rivers. As for all coucals, young white-browed coucal secrete a foul smelling black liquid if worried. |
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Warning :
This database was established according to official pieces of work and with the help of famous scientists. However, there might be some errors.
The vernacular names were collected in the field and in the colonial literature from the first part of the 20th century. The monks who established the first dictionaries were not necessarily informed naturalists. Therefore, errors must have been committed.
We invite everyone who could help us to improve this working tool to contact us in order to correct us and share her/his knowledge with us.
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