GOULD'S BRONZE-CUCKOO

Photographed on Saibai, Torres Straits, March 2018

1247                   GOULD'S BRONZE CUCKOO                Chrysococcyx minutillus russatus

AUSTRALIA                   742

Found in north-eastern Australia, Indonesia and New Guinea. Taxonomic distinctiveness is uncertain and often lumped with the Little Bronze Cuckoo. Habitat is subtropical or tropical moist lowland forest.

LITTLE BRONZE-CUCKOO

Photographed at Coen, Queensland October 2015

687     LITTLE BRONZE CUCKOO         Chrysococcyx minutillus

Australia    (529)

Found in drier, open forests and woodlands; monsoon forest, paperbarks, gardens. 14-15 cm. Range: nominate race: Kimberley (WA)-Top End (NT). Race: bernardi: from c. Byfield (Q) to c. Kempsey (NSW), inland to Tenterfield. Some migrate in autumn to Cape York Pen.