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Chrysococcyx lucidus (Shining Bronze Cuckoo)

Synonyms: Chalcites lucidus (homotypic); Cuculus lucidus (homotypic)

Wikipedia Abstract

The shining bronze-cuckoo (Chrysococcyx lucidus) is a species of cuckoo in the Cuculidae family, found in Australia, Indonesia, New Caledonia, New Zealand, Papua New Guinea, Solomon Islands, and Vanuatu. It was previously also known as Chalcites lucidus.
View Wikipedia Record: Chrysococcyx lucidus

Infraspecies

Chrysococcyx lucidus harterti
Chrysococcyx lucidus layardi
Chrysococcyx lucidus lucidus (Shining Bronze-Cuckoo) (Attributes)
Chrysococcyx lucidus plagosus (Shining Bronze-Cuckoo) (Attributes)

EDGE Analysis

Uniqueness Scale: Similiar (0) 
4
 Unique (100)
Uniqueness & Vulnerability Scale: Similiar & Secure (0) 
23
 Unique & Vulnerable (100)
ED Score: 8.4827
EDGE Score: 2.24947
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Attributes

Adult Weight [1]  24 grams
Diet [2]  Carnivore (Invertebrates)
Diet - Invertibrates [2]  100 %
Forages - Canopy [2]  20 %
Forages - Mid-High [2]  50 %
Forages - Understory [2]  10 %
Forages - Ground [2]  20 %
Clutch Size [1]  1
Migration [3]  Intercontinental

Ecoregions

Protected Areas

Biodiversity Hotspots

Name Location Endemic Species Website
East Melanesian Islands Papua New Guinea, Solomon Islands, Vanuatu No
New Caledonia New Caledonia No
New Zealand New Zealand No
Southwest Australia Australia No
Wallacea East Timor, Indonesia No

Prey / Diet

Consumers

Parasitized by 
Cuculicola kui[6]

Range Map

External References

Citations

Attributes / relations provided by
♦ 1Nathan P. Myhrvold, Elita Baldridge, Benjamin Chan, Dhileep Sivam, Daniel L. Freeman, and S. K. Morgan Ernest. 2015. An amniote life-history database to perform comparative analyses with birds, mammals, and reptiles. Ecology 96:3109
♦ 2Hamish Wilman, Jonathan Belmaker, Jennifer Simpson, Carolina de la Rosa, Marcelo M. Rivadeneira, and Walter Jetz. 2014. EltonTraits 1.0: Species-level foraging attributes of the world's birds and mammals. Ecology 95:2027
♦ 3Myers, P., R. Espinosa, C. S. Parr, T. Jones, G. S. Hammond, and T. A. Dewey. 2006. The Animal Diversity Web (online). Accessed February 01, 2010 at animaldiversity.org
♦ 4FOODS OF THE SHINING CUCKOO (CHRYSOCOCCYX LUCIDUS, AVES: CUCULIDAE) IN NEW ZEALAND, Brian J. Gill, NEW ZEALAND JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY, VOL. 3. 1980
♦ 5Jorrit H. Poelen, James D. Simons and Chris J. Mungall. (2014). Global Biotic Interactions: An open infrastructure to share and analyze species-interaction datasets. Ecological Informatics.
♦ 6Species Interactions of Australia Database, Atlas of Living Australia, Version ala-csv-2012-11-19
Ecoregions provided by World Wide Fund For Nature (WWF). WildFinder: Online database of species distributions, ver. 01.06 Wildfinder Database
Biodiversity Hotspots provided by Critical Ecosystem Partnership Fund
Abstract provided by DBpedia licensed under a Creative Commons License
Species taxanomy provided by GBIF Secretariat (2022). GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei accessed via GBIF.org on 2023-06-13; License: CC BY 4.0