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Includes Gould's Bronze Cuckoo; Green-cheeked Bronze Cuckoo; Pied Bronze Cuckoo

Chrysococcyx minutillus

Photo by Tom Tarrant

Gould's Bronze Cuckoo C. m. russatus
Photo by Tannin
Julatten, northern Queensland, Australia

Pied Bronze Cuckoo C. m. crassirostris
Photo by mehdhalaouate
Yamdena Island, the Tanimbar, Indonesia, August 2006

[edit] Identification

[edit] Distribution

Australia, Cambodia, Malaysia, Indonesia, Papua New Guinea, Singapore, Thailand, Vietnam

[edit] Taxonomy

This taxon includes Green-cheeked Bronze Cuckoo, Gould's Bronze Cuckoo and Pied Bronze Cuckoo, which are considered separate species by some authorities.

[edit] Subspecies

13 subspecies are listed, including one that has not been officially described yet:

• C. m. peninsularis
• C. m. albifrons
• C. m. cleis
• C. m. aheneus
• C. m. jungei
• C. m. rufomerus
• C. m. ssp.
• C. m. misoriensis
• C. m. poecilurus
• C. m. minutillus
• C. m. russatus
• C. m. barnardi
• C. c. crassirostris Moluccas (Tayandu, Kai Islands) and Tanimbar Island (Yamdena, Larat)
• C. c. salvadorii Tepa Island, only known from one specimen

crassirostris and salvadorii used to be split as Pied Bronze Cuckoo but are included here following Clements^[1] and the IOC.

[edit] Habitat

Moist forest

[edit] Behaviour

This species is a brood parasite, meaning that it lays its eggs in the nest of other species and leaves the work with raising the young to them.

[edit] References

1. Clements, JF. 2009. The Clements Checklist of Birds of the World. 6th ed., with updates to December 2009. Ithaca: Cornell Univ. Press. ISBN 978-0801445019.

[edit] External Links

• View more images of this species on the ABID
• View more images of this species on Orientalbirdimages