Le Coucal géant The Giant Coucal A coucal is one of about 30 species of birds in the cuckoo family. All of them belong in the subfamily Centropodinae and the genus Centropus. Unlike many Old World cuckoos, coucals are not brood parasites, from the Book Histoire naturelle des oiseaux d'Afrique [Natural History of birds of Africa] Volume 5, by Le Vaillant, Francois, 1753-1824; Publish in Paris by Chez Fuchs, libraire 1799

---

Size: 3594px × 4867px
Location: Africa
Photo credit: © Historic Illustrations / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No

Keywords: 18th, africa, african, antique, art, artistic, artwork, beauty, bird, birds, book, century, classic, coucal, coucals, coucou, cuckoo, cuckoos, dafrique, des, drawing, educational, eighteenth, francois, histoire, history, idr, illustration, informative, knowledge, le, learning, natural, nature, naturelle, oiseaux, ornithological, ornithology, painted, painting, picture, plate, precise, precision, psi, rare, reference, research, science, scientific, sketch, studies, study, vaillant, vintage, work