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Red-chested Cuckoo
Cuculus solitarius · Family Cuculidae
Cuculus solitarius
Family Cuculidae
- Order
- Cuculiformes
- Family
- Cuculidae
- GBIF occurrence records
- 131,808
- Countries and territories with records
- 40
About this species
This species has 131,808 occurrence records from 40 countries and territories (GBIF, 21 October 2026). Most records come from South Africa (68.4%), Kenya (8.7%), Uganda (6.6%), Tanzania (3.9%) and Zimbabwe (2.5%); together they account for 90.2% of the total. In South Africa, this species accounts for 0.23% of all bird records in GBIF.
The scientific name Cuculus solitarius combines the genus name Cuculus with the species epithet solitarius. The Warbla app catalog lists 11 species of the genus Cuculus; apart from this one, those with the most GBIF records are Cuculus canorus, Cuculus micropterus and Cuculus clamosus.
The catalog has GBIF record counts for 144 species of the family Cuculidae. This species ranks 23rd among them; the family’s most-recorded species is Cuculus canorus. Its record count is 1.5 times the family average (90,374). The family Cuculidae belongs to the order Cuculiformes, which has 146 species in the Warbla app catalog.