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The Shining Bronze Cuckoo (Chrysococcyx lucidus) is the most bronze of this sub-family of cuckoo. It's back is a glory of green, blue and bronze depending on the light. It transits through Australia to and from New Zealand, although some are permanent residents here. They are usually heard rather than seen with a piercing, rising call.
Shining BronzeCuckoo eBird Australia
The shining bronze cuckoo ( Chrysococcyx lucidus) is a species of cuckoo in the family Cuculidae, found in Australia, Indonesia, New Caledonia, New Zealand, Papua New Guinea, Solomon Islands, and Vanuatu. It was previously also known as Chalcites lucidus .
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A female shining bronze-cuckoo lays a single egg in a host nest and removes a host egg. After hatching, the baby cuckoo ejects the host nestlings from the nest.. In Victoria in 2005, a pair of chestnut-rumped heathwren was encountered with a juvenile shining bronze-cuckoo which imitated the alarm call of a baby heathwren. The introduced.
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The Shining Bronze-Cuckoo is a small cuckoo with irridescent green upper parts, white underparts with bold dark, mostly unbroken barring , and a very white face with fine, dark mottling. It has no distinct white eye-brow nor dark eye-stripe and no reddish colour in wings and little or no reddish colour in its tail.
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Shining BronzeCuckoo Canberra Birds
The shining cuckoo (shining bronze-cuckoo in Australia) is a summer migrant to New Zealand. It is common throughout New Zealand but it is small and cryptically-coloured and so is more often heard than seen. It has a distinctive whistling call.
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Bird calls / bird song Shining Bronze-Cuckoo The main territorial advertisement call given by Shining Bronze-Cuckoos has been termed the "whistling a dog" call - a series of repeated upslurred notes, sometimes finishing with a downslurred note.
Shining Bronze Cuckoo (Chrysococcyx lucidus) Focusing on Wildlife
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Shining BronzeCuckoo Canberra Birds
August 29, 2023. 521. The shining Bronze-cuckoo (Chrysococcyx lucidus) deposits its eggs in the nests of at least 65 other species of birds. It usually chooses the domed nests of thornbills, gerygones, fairy-wrens, and scrubwrens. But sometimes lays in the cup-shaped nests of Wee bills, flycatchers, chats, silvereyes, sitellas, and honeyeaters.
Shining BronzeCuckoo Tidbinbilla Nature Reserve, ACT Nature
Shining Bronze-Cuckoos are small cuckoos. The plumage of Shining Bronze-Cuckoos depends on race. The nominate (New Zealand) race "lucidus" has a metallic-green cap, while Australian race "plagosus" has a russet-brown cap. Otherwise the two races are similar, with a white front, from the eyes and bill downwards, barred completely with greyish.
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The shining bronze-cuckoo ( Chrysococcyx lucidus ) is a species of cuckoo in the family Cuculidae, found in Australia, Indonesia, New Caledonia, New Zealand, Papua New Guinea, Solomon Islands, and Vanuatu. It was previously also known as Chalcites lucidus. Show More Te Terrestrial Mi Migrating S starts with Appearance
Shining BronzeCuckoo (Chalcites [Chrysococcyx] lucidus)
The Shining Bronze-Cuckoos (Chrysococcyx lucidus previously Chalcites lucidus) is a cuckoo found in Australia, Indonesia, New Caledonia, New Zealand, Papua New Guinea, Solomon Islands, and Vanuatu.
Shining BronzeCuckoo eBird Australia
A small glossy-greenish bird with a heavily barred throat, chest and tail. Parasitises gerygone species across its range. Distinguished from Horsfield's Bronze-Cuckoo in Australia by lacking the dark stripe through the eye, and typically occurs in wetter and denser forest than Horsfield's. Listen for territorial calls with a fast repeated rising "coo-ee" whistle (2 whistles per second.
Shining Bronze Cuckoo / Chrysococcyx lucidus photo call and song
Click here for more information about the Red List categories and criteria Justification of Red List category This species has an extremely large range, and hence does not approach the thresholds for Vulnerable under the range size criterion (Extent of Occurrence <20,000 km2 combined with a declining or fluctuating range size, habitat extent/quality, or population size and a small number of.
Shining BronzeCuckoo (Chalcites [Chrysococcyx] lucidus)
The shining bronze‐cuckoo is a specialist parasite of a few hosts in the family Acanthizidae. It has diversified into subspecies, of which the nestlings closely mimic the respective host.
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7. Song, © Dan Lane New Zealand 8. Call, © Dan Lane New Zealand 9. Call, song, © Dan Lane New Zealand 10. Call, © Nicholas Allen
Shining BronzeCuckoo
The shining cuckoo (shining bronze-cuckoo in Australia) is a summer migrant to New Zealand. It is common throughout New Zealand but it is small and cryptically-coloured and so is more often heard than seen. It has a distinctive whistling call.