Horsfield's Bronze-cuckoo
Male, back
Horsfield's Bronze-cuckoo
Female, profile
| Horsfield's Bronze-cuckoo Male, back | | Horsfield's Bronze-cuckoo Female, profile | | ||
 | Class: | Animals (Animalia) - Chordates (Chordata) - Birds (Aves) | |||
| Order: | Cuckoos (Cuculiformes) | ||||
| Family: | Cuckoo (Cuculidae) iNaturalist Observation | ||||
| Species: | Horsfield's Bronze-cuckoo (Chalcites basalis) | ||||
| This Photo: | 🔍Male, chestnut tail feathers🔎 | ||||
| Synonym: | Chrysococcyx basalis | ||||
| Other names: | Horsefield's or Horsfield's Bronze Cuckoo | ||||
Thank you Alan Melville for confirming the id of this species for us General Species Information: Found on Ellura (in the Murray Mallee, SA), the Adelaide Hills and elsewhere Regular high-pitched call with brown and white barred breast. Metallic green and bronze back. Camouflages very well in bushes with its green back. Very similar to Shining Bronze Cuckoo, but the Horsfields' bars don't meet at the front. The green back is also duller, but that's hard to compare without seeing both. The males have orange / brown eyes, while the females have off-white eyes. Similar Species: Shining Bronze-cuckoo (Chalcites lucidus ssp plagosus) : Black Eared Cuckoo (Chalcites osculans) | |||||
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