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Least Concern
Quick Facts
Mass0.086 kg
Facts sourced from Wikidata (CC0).
The black cuckoo is a species of cuckoo in the family Cuculidae. The species is distributed widely across sub-Saharan Africa. There are two subspecies. This cuckoo has a very wide range and is quite common so it is classified as a least-concern species by the International Union for Conservation of Nature.
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