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Ceuthmochares

genus of birds

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJan 14, 2025
Entity authorityQ1976419 ↗
Source-derived summary

Ceuthmochares is a genus of 2 species of cuckoos in the family Cuculidae. The two species were once treated as a single species, known as the yellowbill. Both species are found in evergreen forest in Africa. Although they are cuckoos they are not brood parasites. This indicates that they do not lay their eggs in the nests of other bird species.

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“Ceuthmochares” enters the record as genus of birds. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Ceuthmochares, genus and birds can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA sound reference starting point where classification, measurement and the date of the underlying evidence remain visible. The current 61-word lead offers orientation but no explicit four-digit date, so chronology should not be assumed. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Ceuthmochares, genus and birds.
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“Ceuthmochares” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Ceuthmochares, genus and birds provides the most credible route into that argument.

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This entry incorporates text from “Ceuthmochares” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.