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Chrysococcyx
''Chrysococcyx'' is a genus of cuckoo in the family Cuculidae. The genus ''Chrysococcyx'' was erected by the German zoologist Friedrich Boie in 1826 with the African emerald cuckoo (''Chrysococcyx cupreus'') as the type species. The name ''Chrysococcyx '' combines the Ancient Greek χρυσος ''khrusos'' meaning "gold" and κοκκυξ ''kokkux'' "cuckoo". Some authorities split the principally Australo-Papuan taxa into the genus ''Chalcites''. The genus contains the following species: ;Afro-Asian * Diederik cuckoo (''Chrysococcyx caprius'') * African emerald cuckoo (''Chrysococcyx cupreus'') * Yellow-throated cuckoo (''Chrysococcyx flavigularis'') * Klaas's cuckoo (''Chrysococcyx klaas'') * Asian emerald cuckoo (''Chrysococcyx maculatus'') * Violet cuckoo (''Chrysococcyx xanthorhynchus'') ;Australo-Papuan * Horsfield's bronze cuckoo (''Chrysococcyx basalis'') * Shining bronze cuckoo (''Chrysococcyx lucidus'') * White-eared bronze cuckoo (''Chrysococcyx meyerii'') * Litt ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chrysococcyx
''Chrysococcyx'' is a genus of cuckoo in the family Cuculidae. The genus ''Chrysococcyx'' was erected by the German zoologist Friedrich Boie in 1826 with the African emerald cuckoo (''Chrysococcyx cupreus'') as the type species. The name ''Chrysococcyx '' combines the Ancient Greek χρυσος ''khrusos'' meaning "gold" and κοκκυξ ''kokkux'' "cuckoo". Some authorities split the principally Australo-Papuan taxa into the genus ''Chalcites''. The genus contains the following species: ;Afro-Asian * Diederik cuckoo (''Chrysococcyx caprius'') * African emerald cuckoo (''Chrysococcyx cupreus'') * Yellow-throated cuckoo (''Chrysococcyx flavigularis'') * Klaas's cuckoo (''Chrysococcyx klaas'') * Asian emerald cuckoo (''Chrysococcyx maculatus'') * Violet cuckoo (''Chrysococcyx xanthorhynchus'') ;Australo-Papuan * Horsfield's bronze cuckoo (''Chrysococcyx basalis'') * Shining bronze cuckoo (''Chrysococcyx lucidus'') * White-eared bronze cuckoo (''Chrysococcyx meyerii'') * Litt ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
African Emerald Cuckoo
The African emerald cuckoo (''Chrysococcyx cupreus'') is a species of cuckoo that is native to Africa. Taxonomy and phylogeny As a member of the family Cuculidae, the African emerald cuckoo is an Old World cuckoo. There are four subspecies, namely ''C. c. cupreus'', ''C. c. sharpei'', ''C. c. intermedius'', and ''C. c. insularum''. *''C. c. cupreus'': Africa south of the Sahara *''C. c. intermedius'': Bioko (Gulf of Guinea) *''C. c. insularum'': São Tomé, Príncipe, and Annobón (Gulf of Guinea) Distribution Its range covers most of sub-Saharan Africa, including Angola, Botswana, Burundi, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Republic of the Congo, DRC, Ivory Coast, Equatorial Guinea, Eritrea, Eswatini, Ethiopia, Gabon, Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Kenya, Liberia, Malawi, Mali, Mozambique, Namibia, Nigeria, Rwanda, São Tomé and Príncipe, Senegal, Sierra Leone, South Africa, South Sudan, Tanzania, Togo, Uganda, Zambia, and Zimbabwe. Description The African emerald cu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Shining Bronze Cuckoo
The shining bronze cuckoo (''Chrysococcyx lucidus'') is a species of cuckoo in the family Cuculidae, found in Australia, Indonesia, New Caledonia, New Zealand, Papua New Guinea, Solomon Islands, and Vanuatu. It was previously also known as ''Chalcites lucidus''. It is a very small cuckoo, being only in length, and parasitises chiefly dome-shaped nests of various ''Gerygone'' species, having a range that largely corresponds with the distribution of that genus. It may also parasitise other Acanthizidae species, and is also the most southerly ranging brood parasitic bird species in the world, extending to at least 46°S in New Zealand. Taxonomy The shining bronze cuckoo was formally described in 1788 by the German naturalist Johann Friedrich Gmelin in his revised and expanded edition of Carl Linnaeus's ''Systema Naturae''. He placed it with all the other cuckoos in the genus ''Cuculus'' and coined the binomial name ''Cuculus lucidus''. Gmelin based his description on the ''Shinin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Horsfield's Bronze Cuckoo
Horsfield's bronze cuckoo (''Chrysococcyx basalis'') is a small cuckoo in the family Cuculidae. Its size averages 22g and is distinguished by its green and bronze iridescent colouring on its back and incomplete brown barring from neck to tail. Horsfield's bronze cuckoo can be destiguished from other bronze cuckoos by its white eyebrow and brown eye stripe. The Horsfield's bronze cuckoo is common throughout Australia preferring the drier open woodlands away from forested areas. Taxonomy The Horsfield's bronze cuckoo is one of five Australian species in the genus ''Chrysococcyx'' (formerly ''Chalcites'') a type of parasitic bird, that parasitises fairy-wrens primarily to raise their young. Diet and behaviour The main diet of the Horsfield's bronze cuckoo is insects and they are nomadic, travelling to different regions of Australia to breed and find food. Small insects are taken from leaves, branches, caught on the wing and in breeding season, Horsfield's bronze cuckoos feed each ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Black-eared Cuckoo
The black-eared cuckoo (''Chrysococcyx osculans'') is a species of cuckoo in the family Cuculidae. Found across Australia, it migrates to eastern Indonesia and southern New Guinea. They are usually observed by themselves or in a pair as they don't raise their own young, rather they leave eggs in another species nest to be raised by host. Description Adult weight on average 30 grams and are 19 to 20 cm long,Simpson, K and Day, N. 1998. The Claremont Field guide to the Birds of Australia, Penguin with dull greyish-brown back with distinctive black eye-stripe from the bill to the neck. Rump is pale white and breasts area is pale salmon in colour.Pizzey and Knight 2007. The Field guide to the Birds of Australia, eight edition. HarperCollins Feet and legs are black, eyes are brown, bill is black tail is grey/brown on top, with white tips, while underneath the tail is cream with brownish bars. What distinguishes it from other small sized cuckoo species in Australia is that it d ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Diederik Cuckoo
The diederik cuckoo (''Chrysococcyx caprius''), formerly dideric cuckoo or didric cuckoo is a member of the cuckoo order of birds, the Cuculiformes, which also includes the roadrunners and the anis. Taxonomy The diederik cuckoo was described by the French polymath Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon in 1780 in his ''Histoire Naturelle des Oiseaux'' from a specimen collected in the Cape of Good Hope region of South Africa. The bird was also illustrated in a hand-coloured plate engraved by François-Nicolas Martinet in the ''Planches Enluminées D'Histoire Naturelle'' which was produced under the supervision of Edme-Louis Daubenton to accompany Buffon's text. Neither the plate caption nor Buffon's description included a scientific name but in 1783 the Dutch naturalist Pieter Boddaert coined the binomial name ''Cuculus caprius'' in his catalogue of the ''Planches Enluminées''. The diederik cuckoo is now placed in the genus '' Chrysococcyx'' that was erected by the German zoo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Violet Cuckoo
The violet cuckoo (''Chrysococcyx xanthorhynchus'') is a species of cuckoo in the family Cuculidae. Description The males have glossy violet feathers on the head and upper parts of the body. The blackish tail has a white tip, and barred outer feathers. The most spectacular feature is the brightly iridescent violet chin and upper breast. The belly is white with broad black, green or violet bars. Mature males also have a red eye-ring. The closely related species, C. amethystinus has a glossy blue-violet throat patch rather than reddish violet of this cuckoo. The females have mottled, greenish-bronze upper parts and a dark brown crown. There are white markings around the eyes and sometimes on the forehead. The central tail feathers are greenish while the outer feathers are rufous with greenish bars. The outer rectrices are barred black and white. The breast is whitish with bronze-green bars and variably washed rufous markings. Juveniles have barred rufous and greenish bronze feathe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Asian Emerald Cuckoo
The Asian emerald cuckoo (''Chrysococcyx maculatus'') is a species of cuckoo in the family Cuculidae. It is found in Bangladesh, Bhutan, Cambodia, China, India, Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, Myanmar, Nepal, Sri Lanka, Thailand, and Vietnam. Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests and subtropical or tropical moist montane forest. Taxonomy The Asian emerald cuckoo was formally described in 1788 by the German naturalist Johann Friedrich Gmelin in his revised and expanded edition of Carl Linnaeus's '' Systema Naturae''. He placed it with all the other cuckoos in the genus ''Cuculus'' and coined the binomial name ''Cuculus maculatus''. Gmelin based his description on the "Spotted Curucui" from Ceylon that had been described and illustrated in 1776 by the English naturalist Peter Brown. The Asian emerald cuckoo is now placed together with 12 other species in the genus '' Chrysococcyx'' that was introduced in 1826 by the German zoologist Friedrich Boie ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yellow-throated Cuckoo
The yellow-throated cuckoo (''Chrysococcyx flavigularis'') is a species of cuckoo in the family Cuculidae Cuckoos are birds in the Cuculidae family, the sole taxon in the order Cuculiformes . The cuckoo family includes the common or European cuckoo, roadrunners, koels, malkohas, couas, coucals and anis. The coucals and anis are sometimes separ .... It is distributed across the African tropical rainforest. References yellow-throated cuckoo Birds of the African tropical rainforest yellow-throated cuckoo yellow-throated cuckoo Taxonomy articles created by Polbot {{cuculiformes-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
White-eared Bronze Cuckoo
The white-eared bronze cuckoo (''Chrysococcyx meyerii'') is a species of cuckoo in the family Cuculidae. It is found in New Guinea New Guinea (; Hiri Motu: ''Niu Gini''; id, Papua, or , historically ) is the world's second-largest island with an area of . Located in Oceania in the southwestern Pacific Ocean, the island is separated from Australia by the wide Torr .... References white-eared bronze cuckoo Birds of New Guinea white-eared bronze cuckoo Taxonomy articles created by Polbot Taxobox binomials not recognized by IUCN {{Cuculiformes-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Little Bronze Cuckoo
The little bronze cuckoo (''Chrysococcyx minutillus'') is a species of cuckoo in the family Cuculidae. It is found in Southeast Asia, New Guinea and northern and eastern Australia, where its natural habitat is subtropical or tropical moist lowland forest. It is the world's smallest cuckoo, at and . The subspecies ''rufomerus'' and ''crassirostris'' are sometimes given specific status. Subspecies Subspecies accepted by the International Ornithologists' Union as of 2014 are: *''C. m. peninsularis'' S.A.Parker, 1981 – southern Thailand and the Malay Peninsula *''C. m. albifrons'' ( Junge, 1938) – Sumatra and western Java *''C. m. aheneus'' (Junge, 1938) – Borneo and the southern Philippines *''C. m. jungei'' ( Stresemann, 1938) – Sulawesi, Flores and Madu Island *''C. m. rufomerus'' Hartert, 1900 (green-cheeked bronze cuckoo) – Lesser Sunda Islands *''C. m. crassirostris'' ( Salvadori, 1878) (pied bronze cuckoo) – considered by some authorities as a separate spe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cuculidae
Cuckoos are birds in the Cuculidae family, the sole taxon in the order Cuculiformes . The cuckoo family includes the common or European cuckoo, roadrunners, koels, malkohas, couas, coucals and anis. The coucals and anis are sometimes separated as distinct families, the Centropodidae and Crotophagidae respectively. The cuckoo order Cuculiformes is one of three that make up the Otidimorphae, the other two being the turacos and the bustards. The family Cuculidae contains 150 species which are divided into 33 genera. The cuckoos are generally medium-sized slender birds. Most species live in trees, though a sizeable minority are ground-dwelling. The family has a cosmopolitan distribution; the majority of species are tropical. Some species are migratory. The cuckoos feed on insects, insect larvae and a variety of other animals, as well as fruit. Some species are brood parasites, laying their eggs in the nests of other species and giving rise to the metaphor ''cuckoo's egg'', ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
