Blue-headed Coucal
Centropus monachus
IUCN: Least Concern
Taxonomy
- Order
- Cuculiformes
- Family
- Cuculidae
- Genus
- Centropus
- eBird Code
- blhcou2
Subspecies (3)
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Centropus monachus fischeri
southeastern Sudan and South Sudan to eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo, Uganda, western Kenya, Rwanda, Burundi and northwestern Tanzania
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Centropus monachus monachus
Eritrea and Ethiopia to central Kenya
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Centropus monachus occidentalis
Guinea and Ivory Coast eastward to southern Nigeria, Cameroon, Equatorial Guinea, Gabon and northern Angola; populations of the western and southern Democratic Republic of the Congo variously attributed to occidentalis or to fisheri
Data Sources
Taxonomy data from AviList 2025.