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Record details

BirdPix:   130198
Province:   Lagos
Country:   Nigeria
Locus:   NE_006003CB
Observer:   Okunaiya Adetayo
Date of record:   2020-06-09
Number of photos:   2
Notes:   I had only recently started seeing sengeal coucals in my locality when I saw this bird which I initially thought was a black Coucal before I go as corrected that it was a black morph of a Senegal Coucal ( only the chest head and part of the chest was black)
Last updated:   2022-03-11 14:29:26
Sp. code:   355
Species name:   Centropus senegalensis
Common name:   Senegal Coucal -- Senegalvleiloerie
Family:   Centropodidae
Record status:   ACCEPTED
Collector's species id:   Senegal Coucal (black morph)
Institution:   ADU-UCT
Record URL:   https://vmus.adu.org.za/?vm=BirdPix-130198
Links:   • Locus: Summary | Records       • Species: Records | Distribution map
VM-number: 130198 - photo: 1
VM-number: 130198 - photo: 2

Comments by the Expert Panel on this record:

Comment number:   1
By:   Abubakar Surajo Ringim
Comment:  
Date:   2020-09-22 08:27:37
Species name:   Centropus senegalensis -- Senegal Coucal; Senegalvleiloerie
Species code:   355

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