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Jacobin cuckoo, the Glossary

The Jacobin cuckoo (Clamator jacobinus), also pied cuckoo or pied crested cuckoo, is a member of the cuckoo order of birds that is found in Africa and Asia.^[1]

39 relations: African paradise flycatcher, Anders Sparrman, Beak, Binomial nomenclature, Bird, Cape bulbul, Christian Gottfried Ehrenberg, Common bulbul, Common iora, Coromandel Coast, Cuckoo, Dominican Order, Edme-Louis Daubenton, Eurasian sparrowhawk, Fork-tailed drongo, François-Nicolas Martinet, Fulvous babbler, Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon, Great spotted cuckoo, Hindu mythology, India, Johann Jakob Kaup, Jungle babbler, Kalidasa, Latin, Meghadūta, Monsoon, Nuptial gift, Pieter Boddaert, Red-vented bulbul, Rufous chatterer, Satya Churn Law, Sombre greenbul, Southern fiscal, Subspecies, Turdoides, Type (biology), Type species, Wilhelm Hemprich.
Clamator

African paradise flycatcher

The African paradise flycatcher (Terpsiphone viridis) is a medium-sized passerine bird. Jacobin cuckoo and African paradise flycatcher are birds of Sub-Saharan Africa.

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Anders Sparrman

Anders Sparrman (27 February 1748 – 9 August 1820) was a Swedish naturalist, abolitionist and an apostle of Carl Linnaeus.

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Beak

The beak, bill, or rostrum is an external anatomical structure found mostly in birds, but also in turtles, non-avian dinosaurs and a few mammals.

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In taxonomy, binomial nomenclature ("two-term naming system"), also called binary nomenclature, is a formal system of naming species of living things by giving each a name composed of two parts, both of which use Latin grammatical forms, although they can be based on words from other languages.

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Bird

Birds are a group of warm-blooded vertebrates constituting the class Aves, characterised by feathers, toothless beaked jaws, the laying of hard-shelled eggs, a high metabolic rate, a four-chambered heart, and a strong yet lightweight skeleton.

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Cape bulbul

The Cape bulbul (Pycnonotus capensis) is a member of the bulbul family of passerine birds.

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Christian Gottfried Ehrenberg

Christian Gottfried Ehrenberg (19 April 1795 – 27 June 1876) was a German naturalist, zoologist, botanist, comparative anatomist, geologist, and microscopist.

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Common bulbul

The common bulbul (Pycnonotus barbatus) is a member of the bulbul family of passerine birds.

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Common iora

The common iora (Aegithina tiphia) is a small passerine bird found across the tropical Indian subcontinent and Southeast Asia, with populations showing plumage variations, some of which are designated as subspecies.

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Coromandel Coast

The Coromandel Coast is the southeastern coastal region of the Indian subcontinent, bounded by the Utkal Plains to the north, the Bay of Bengal to the east, the Kaveri delta to the south, and the Eastern Ghats to the west, extending over an area of about 22,800 square kilometres.

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Cuckoo

Cuckoos are birds in the Cuculidae family, the sole taxon in the order Cuculiformes.

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Dominican Order

The Order of Preachers (Ordo Prædicatorum; abbreviated OP), commonly known as the Dominican Order, is a Catholic mendicant order of pontifical right that was founded in France by a Castilian-French priest named Dominic de Guzmán.

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Edme-Louis Daubenton

Edme-Louis Daubenton (12 August 1730 – 12 December 1785) was a French naturalist.

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Eurasian sparrowhawk

The Eurasian sparrowhawk (Accipiter nisus), also known as the northern sparrowhawk or simply the sparrowhawk, is a small bird of prey in the family Accipitridae.

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Fork-tailed drongo

The fork-tailed drongo (Dicrurus adsimilis), also called the common drongo or African drongo, is a small bird found from the Sahel to South Africa that lives in wooded habitats, particularly woodlands and savannas. Jacobin cuckoo and fork-tailed drongo are birds of Sub-Saharan Africa.

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François-Nicolas Martinet

François-Nicolas Martinet (1731 - c. 1800) was a French engineer, engraver and naturalist.

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Fulvous babbler

The fulvous babbler or fulvous chatterer (Argya fulva) is a species of bird in the family Leiothrichidae.

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Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon

Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon (7 September 1707 – 16 April 1788) was a French naturalist, mathematician, and cosmologist.

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Great spotted cuckoo

The great spotted cuckoo (Clamator glandarius) is a member of the cuckoo order of birds, the Cuculiformes, which also includes the roadrunners, the anis and the coucals. Jacobin cuckoo and great spotted cuckoo are Brood parasites and Clamator.

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Hindu mythology

Hindu mythology is the body of myths attributed to, and espoused by, the adherents of the Hindu religion, found in Hindu texts such as the Vedas, the itihasa (the epics of the Mahabharata and Ramayana) the Puranas, and mythological stories specific to a particular ethnolinguistic group like the Tamil Periya Puranam and ''Divya Prabandham'', and the Mangal Kavya of Bengal.

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India

India, officially the Republic of India (ISO), is a country in South Asia.

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Johann Jakob Kaup

Johann Jakob von Kaup (10 April 1803 – 4 July 1873) was a German naturalist.

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Jungle babbler

The jungle babbler (Argya striata) is a member of the family Leiothrichidae found in the Indian subcontinent. Jacobin cuckoo and jungle babbler are birds of South Asia.

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Kalidasa

Kālidāsa (कालिदास, "Servant of Kali"; 4th–5th century CE) was a Classical Sanskrit author who is often considered ancient India's greatest poet and playwright.

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Latin

Latin (lingua Latina,, or Latinum) is a classical language belonging to the Italic branch of the Indo-European languages.

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Meghadūta

Meghadūta (मेघदूत literally Cloud Messenger) is a lyric poem written by Kālidāsa (c. 4th–5th century CE), considered to be one of the greatest Sanskrit poets.

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Monsoon

A monsoon is traditionally a seasonal reversing wind accompanied by corresponding changes in precipitation but is now used to describe seasonal changes in atmospheric circulation and precipitation associated with annual latitudinal oscillation of the Intertropical Convergence Zone (ITCZ) between its limits to the north and south of the equator.

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Nuptial gift

Formally, a nuptial gift is a material presentation to a recipient by a donor during or in relation to sexual intercourse that is not simply gametes in order to improve the reproductive fitness of the donor.

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Pieter Boddaert

Pieter Boddaert (1730 – 6 May 1795) was a Dutch physician and naturalist.

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Red-vented bulbul

The red-vented bulbul (Pycnonotus cafer) is a member of the bulbul family of passerines. Jacobin cuckoo and red-vented bulbul are birds of South Asia.

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Rufous chatterer

The rufous chatterer (Argya rubiginosa) is a species of bird in the family Leiothrichidae.

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Satya Churn Law

Satya Churn Law (also transcribed as Satya Charan Law or in Bengali Satyacharan Laha) (1888 – 11 December 1984) was a wealthy naturalist, amateur ornithologist, educationist and intellectual in Calcutta.

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Sombre greenbul

The sombre greenbul (Andropadus importunus) is a member of the bulbul family of passerine birds.

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Southern fiscal

The southern fiscal or fiscal shrike (Lanius collaris) is a member of the shrike family found through most of southern Africa. Jacobin cuckoo and southern fiscal are birds of Sub-Saharan Africa.

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Subspecies

In biological classification, subspecies (subspecies) is a rank below species, used for populations that live in different areas and vary in size, shape, or other physical characteristics (morphology), but that can successfully interbreed.

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Turdoides

Turdoides is a genus of passerine birds in the laughingthrush family Leiothrichidae. Jacobin cuckoo and Turdoides are birds of Sub-Saharan Africa.

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Type (biology)

In biology, a type is a particular specimen (or in some cases a group of specimens) of an organism to which the scientific name of that organism is formally associated.

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Type species

In zoological nomenclature, a type species (species typica) is the species name with which the name of a genus or subgenus is considered to be permanently taxonomically associated, i.e., the species that contains the biological type specimen (or specimens).

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Wilhelm Hemprich

Wilhelm Friedrich Hemprich (24 June 1796 – 30 June 1825) was a German naturalist and explorer.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacobin_cuckoo

Also known as Clamator jacobinus, Coccystes hypopinarius, Coccystes melanoleucos, Oxylophus jacobinus, Pied Crested Cuckoo, Pied Cuckoo.

Jacobin cuckoo, the Glossary

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Clamator

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