Shining Bronze Cuckoo
A species of Chrysococcyx Scientific name : Chrysococcyx lucidus Genus : Chrysococcyx
Shining Bronze Cuckoo, A species of Chrysococcyx
Botanical name: Chrysococcyx lucidus
Genus: Chrysococcyx
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Description General Info
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Description
Hard to spot and easier to hear, the shining bronze-cuckoo has metallic golden or coppery green upperparts and white cheeks and underparts barred with dark green. The female is similar with a more purplish sheen to the crown and nape and bronzer-tinged barring on the belly. The bill is black and the feet are black with yellow undersides. 
Size
17 cm
Nest Placement
Tree
Feeding Habits
Shining Bronze Cuckoo, insectivorous, prefers caterpillars and beetles, including species avoided by others. It has a unique gizzard adaptation to expel caterpillar spines.
Habitat
Shining Bronze Cuckoo typically inhabit forests, woodlands, and scrublands, thriving in regions with ample rainfall (exceeding 380 mm annually). These birds are versatile in elevation, ranging from sea-level to elevations of 1000 m and up to 1920 m in some areas. During the non-breeding season, they adapt to a variety of secondary growth habitats including forest edges, savannas, village gardens, and occasionally mangroves and pine plantations. Shining Bronze Cuckoo are found across broad oceanic regions, where they also occupy Casuarina groves and forest canopies.
Dite type
Insectivorous
General Info
Feeding Habits
Bird food type
Distribution Area
The shining bronze-cuckoo is a summer visitor to Eastern Australia from the Cape York Peninsula in Queensland to South Australia's Eyre Peninsula and Kangaroo Island and Tasmania, as well as Western Australia from Carnarvon in the north to the southwest and east to Esperance. These winter in the Lessa Sunda Islands and New Guinea. New Zealand populations winter in the Solomon Islands and arrive in New Zealand from mid August, though they are not common until October. They spread out to Stewart and Chatham Islands and are found to an altitude of 4000 ft. The island races, layardi in New Caledonia, Vanuatu and some of the islands of the Solomon Islands, and harterti of Rennell and Bellona Islands in the Solomons, are non-migratory.
Scientific Classification
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Cuckoos and Relatives Family
Cuckoos Genus
Chrysococcyx Species
Shining Bronze Cuckoo 
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