Great Spotted Cuckoo
Clamator glandarius
LCLeast Concern
- Family
- Cuckoos (Cuculidae)
- Order
- Cuculiformes
Overview
The great spotted cuckoo (Clamator glandarius) is a member of the cuckoo order of birds, the Cuculiformes, which also includes the roadrunners, the anis and the coucals.
It is widely spread throughout Africa and the Mediterranean Basin. It is a brood parasite that lays its eggs in the nests of corvids, in particular the Eurasian magpie.
Summary from Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Range and habitat
Southwestern Palearctic and sub-Saharan Africa.
Range description: AviList Global Avian Checklist.
Countries
- Albania
- Algeria
- Angola
- Armenia
- Austria
- Bosnia and Herzegovina
- Botswana
- Bulgaria
- Burkina Faso
- Cameroon
- Central African Republic
- Chad
- Côte d'Ivoire
- Croatia
- Cyprus
- Denmark
- DR Congo
- Egypt
- Equatorial Guinea
- Eritrea
- Eswatini
- Ethiopia
- Gambia
- Germany
- Ghana
- Greece
- Guinea
- Guinea-Bissau
- Iraq
- Ireland
- Israel
- Italy
- Jordan
- Kenya
- Lesotho
- Liberia
- Malawi
- Mali
- Malta
- Mauritania
- Monaco
- Morocco
- Mozambique
- Namibia
- Niger
- Nigeria
- Palestine
- Qatar
- Rwanda
- Sao Tome and Principe
- Saudi Arabia
- Senegal
- Sierra Leone
- Somalia
- South Africa
- South Sudan
- Spain
- Sudan
- Sweden
- Syria
- Tanzania
- Togo
- Tunisia
- Turkey
- Uganda
- Western Sahara
- Zambia
- Zimbabwe
Sources and further reading
- Wikipedia: Great spotted cuckoo
- eBird: sightings, maps and photos
- xeno-canto: sound recordings
- Birds of the World: full species account (subscription)
- BirdLife DataZone: status and threats
- IUCN Red List (threat status)
- AviList global checklist (taxonomy)
Last updated September 29, 2026.
