Species Information

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377.  Red-chested Cuckoo
(Redchested cuckoo )   (Cuculus solitarius )
Siswati: phezukwemkhono  
Very common breeding summer migrant in all regions.

Malolotja Mantenga Mlawula

Malolotja Information:
Very common intra-African summer migrant, recorded throughout the reserve. Arrives October and leaves in March, but more silent from February onwards.
Rocky hillsides with scattered trees
Forested gorges
Mixed woodlands, thicket and thornveld
Exotic forest and thicket

Malolotja information from the Bird Checklist for Malolotja (printed in the late 1980's, sponsored by the Natural History Society of Eswatini), supplemented with information from Roberts' Birds of Southern Africa, 1985.

Checklist, comments and distribution information from the Eswatini Bird Atlas by Vincent Parker, digital data provided by the Avian Demography Unit, Department of Statistical Sciences, University of Cape Town (http://www.aviandemographyunit.org). SiSwati names from SNTC and Big Game Parks.