John In Ireland
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Queensland Australia ID (1 Viewer)
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It's a bronze cuckoo of some sort. I'd favour one of the Little Bronze Cuckoo complex (dark eye, rufous tone in tail and distinct orbital ring).
sicklebill
well-known Cretaceous relic
Little Bronze Cuckoo group for sure
John In Ireland
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Would that favour be Chrysococcyx minutillus?
ZootheraMike
Traprock Birding
My very first impressions of this bird was of a Shining Bronze-Cuckoo Chrysococcyx lucidus. For me, it's head just looks a little dark overall for a little bronze-cuckoo.
Do you happen to have any images of the front of the bird, John? That would make things a little easier.
Do you happen to have any images of the front of the bird, John? That would make things a little easier.
John In Ireland
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Sorry all no front view. Everything happened so quickly! 3
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sicklebill
well-known Cretaceous relic
Reddish on tail and lack of a supercilium suggest female Little Bronze to me, maybe a hybrid between Gould's type and Little
mjh73
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I agree with Andrew / sicklebill that this is a female Little Bronze-cuckoo, for the reasons they gave. Also the green carries on off the shoulders up onto the top of the head too which you'd expect to transition into a bronze sheen on a shining.
Wouldn't like to suggest ssp.! Bundaberg is a bit south for Gould's, and there would be more rufous showing. But little is the Oz cuckoo I'm least familiar with.
Wouldn't like to suggest ssp.! Bundaberg is a bit south for Gould's, and there would be more rufous showing. But little is the Oz cuckoo I'm least familiar with.
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