Blue Cuckooshrike
Cyanograucalus azureus(Cassin, J, 1852)
English (US) Blue Cuckooshrike
The Blue Cuckooshrike (Cyanograucalus azureus) is a bird species documented in the AviList Global Avian Checklist. On BirdGuides.io, 0 professional guides specialise in helping birdwatchers observe this species. It belongs to the family Campephagidae (Cuckooshrikes) in the order Passeriformes.
Range: Sierra Leone to Gabon, Democratic Republic of the Congo and southwestern Uganda; Bioko IslandRange summary from AviList, in English.
- Scientific name
- Cyanograucalus azureus
- Order
- Passeriformes
- IUCN Red List
- Least Concern
- English (US)
- Blue Cuckooshrike
- Described by
- (Cassin, J, 1852)
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Add Your ExpertiseTaxonomic history
- First described as
- Graucalus azureus
- Described by
- (Cassin, J, 1852)
- Type locality
- 'West Africa'.
- Original description
- Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia 5(1851) p.348
Nomenclatural data from the AviList checklist, quoted in the language of the original sources.
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