Yellow-throated cuckoo

The yellow-throated cuckoo (Chrysococcyx flavigularis) is a species of cuckoo in the family Cuculidae. It is distributed across the African tropical rainforest. It is threatened by deforestation.[2]

Yellow-throated cuckoo
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Clade: Dinosauria
Class: Aves
Order: Cuculiformes
Family: Cuculidae
Genus: Chrysococcyx
Species:
C. flavigularis
Binomial name
Chrysococcyx flavigularis
Shelley, 1880

Yellow-throated cuckoos are facultative brood parasites; they sometimes lay their eggs in other birds' nests. They do so with a variety of species, including their own, and are more likely to engage in this behavior when food is abundant.[3]

References

  1. BirdLife International (2018). "Chrysococcyx flavigularis". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2018: e.T22684012A130088089. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2018-2.RLTS.T22684012A130088089.en. Retrieved 25 September 2021.
  2. Mustafa, Ghulam; Usman, Muhammad; Yu, Lisu; afzal, Muhammad Tanvir; Sulaiman, Muhammad; Shahid, Abdul (2021-11-09). "Multi-label classification of research articles using Word2Vec and identification of similarity threshold". Scientific Reports. 11 (1). doi:10.1038/s41598-021-01460-7. ISSN 2045-2322.
  3. Hart, Julie. "Species Spotlight - Yellow-billed Cuckoo - New York Breeding Bird Atlas". ebird.org. Retrieved 2023-08-26.


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