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white-browed Coucal


white-browed Coucal
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Copyright: Eyal Bartov (bartove) Gold Star Critiquer/Gold Note Writer [C: 156 W: 1 N: 416] (5067)
Genre: Animals
Medium: Color
Date Taken: 2008-04-22
Categories: Birds
Camera: Canon 40 D, 600 mm f 4
Exposure: f/4, 1/1000 seconds
More Photo Info: [view]
Photo Version: Original Version
Date Submitted: 2008-06-22 14:57
Viewed: 408
Points: 6
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White-browed Coucal

Conservation status
Least Concern
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia

Phylum: Chordata

Class: Aves

Order: Cuculiformes

Family: Cuculidae

Genus: Centropus

Species: C. superciliosus


Binomial name
Centropus superciliosus
Hemprich & Ehrenberg, 1833
The White-browed Coucal (Centropus superciliosus) is a species of cuckoo in the Cuculidae family. It is found in sub-Saharan Africa. The southern subspecies is sometimes split as Burchell's Coucal, Centropus burchelli.

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Hello Eyal,
Great to see a Coucal again. Pity I can't hear it..
Nicely done
TFS
Annick

Hi Eyal,
Excellent picture.
TFS.
- Nirmal

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  • SelenE Gold Star Critiquer/Gold Star Workshop Editor/Gold Note Writer [C: 2307 W: 59 N: 3688] (11816)
  • [2008-06-24 8:34]

Hi Eyal,
Very nice capture of this good looking bird. I liked the colors, composition, POV and the expression you captured. TFS
All the best,
Selen

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