Diederik cuckoo either "cuprea" (coppery) or "capensis" (of Cape of Good Hope). The English name is an onomatopoeic rendition of its call. Diederik cuckoo The Diederik cuckoo ("Chrysococcyx caprius"), formerly dideric cuckoo or didric cuckoo, and sometimes called Diederik's cuckoo, is a member of the cuckoo order of birds, the Cuculiformes, which also includes the roadrunners and the anis. The diederik cuckoo is a smallish cuckoo at 18 to 20 cm. Adult males are glossy green above with copper-sheened areas on the back and whitish underparts. They have a broken white eye-stripe and a short, green malar stripe. All remiges have three
African cuckoo-hawk on their parents for about a week after their first flight. Wahlberg's eagle "Hieraaetus wahlbergi" has been recorded preying on the chicks of the African cuckoo-hawk. African cuckoo-hawk The African cuckoo-hawk, or African baza, ("Aviceda cuculoides") is a medium-sized raptor in the family Accipitridae so named because it resembles the common cuckoo, which is found in sub-Saharan Africa and along the eastern parts of Southern Africa. It prefers dense woodland and forest of either indigenous or exotic trees. The male is blackish-brown above with a grey mantle and chest with a blackish crest, the underparts are white marked with broad