East Africa hosts diverse cuckoos, from parasitic to parental. The red-chested cuckoo’s three-note call.”it will rain” announces the wet season across savannas and highlands.

Didric cuckoos parasitize weavers, laying eggs with remarkable mimicry. The emerald cuckoo haunts forest canopies, while Klaas’s cuckoo inhabits acacias.

White-browed coucals, however, build their own nests in rank vegetation near water look for them in papyrus along Lake Naivasha or coastal swamps. The extraordinary Narina trogon, sometimes grouped near cuckoos, glows emerald in montane forests.