Little Bronze Cuckoo
Chrysococcyx minutillus· 杜鹃科(3 photos)
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Little Bronze Cuckoo
14-15 cm. Eye and eye-ring red (male); tan (female): forehead glossy black with white scallops; upperparts pale bronze-green; underparts white with fine black scallops; inner tail feathers rufous. Race poecilurus (Gould's Bronze-Cuckoo), rufous wash on upperparts, neck and tail; breast-bars more bronzed. Female less rufous. Juvenile: eye brown; grey-green above, whitish below, part-barred.
- Other name
- Gould's Bronze Cuckoo.
- Similar Species
- Shining Bronze-Cuckoo.
- Voice
- 4-5 quick, clear, descending notes, repeated; also long, descending, grasshopper-like trill.
- Habitat
- drier open forests and woodlands; coastal rainforest, monsoon forest, paperbarks, mangroves, gardens.
- Breeding
- Sept.-Jan.
- Eggs
- 1; buff/greenish olive, peppered red-brown; in domed nest of gerygone, honeyeater.
- Range & Status
- Race minutillus: Kimberley (WA)-Top End (NT) and e. to southern Gulf of Carpentaria (Q). Race poecilurus (Gould's Bronze-Cuckoo) on e. coast from Cape York (Q) to Bowen. Race barnardi se. Q to c. Kempsey (NSW) and inland to Tenterfield (NSW), migrating to n. Q and PNG in winter. Also widespread PNG-se. Asia.
- Distribution key to races
- 1. Chrysococcyx minutillus minutillus 2. Chrysococcyx minutillus barnardi 3. Chrysococcyx minutillus poecilurus
