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Subspecies Chalcites lucidus plagosus (Latham, 1801)

 

Generic Combinations

  • Chalcites (Chalcites) lucidus plagosus (Latham, 1801).

 

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Queensland, South Australia, Victoria, Western Australia


Extra Distribution Information

Coastal and subcoastal E Australia, north to Cape York Peninsula and Torres Strait islands—south to TAS and islands in Bass Strait (King Is., Furneaux group)—and inland to outer western footslopes of Great Dividing Range (Mitchell River, Georgetown, Springsure and Chinchilla, QLD, Moree, Gilgandra and Griffith, NSW) south-west to Murray Mallee and the South-East of SA, with outliers in Mt Lofty Range, Kangaroo Is., Yorke and Eyre Peninsulas, SA, and in SW Australia east to Esperance and north through Merredin and Morawa to Geraldton, rarely Carnarvon, WA—also non-breeding visitor at inland limits and across N Australia, including Stradbroke and Dunk Ils, QLD, Cape York Peninsula and Torres Strait islands.


Note that conversion of the original AFD map of states, drainage basins and coastal and oceanic zones to IBRA and IMCRA regions may have produced errors. The new maps will be reviewed and corrected as updates occur. The maps may not indicate the entire distribution. See further details below.
IBRA and IMCRA regions (map not available)
drainage basins and coastal and oceanic zones (map not available)

IBRA

NSW, Qld, SA, Vic, WA: Australian Alps (AA), Avon Wheatbelt (AW), Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Broken Hill Complex (BHC), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Cobar Peneplain (CP), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Desert Uplands (DEU), Darling Riverine Plains (DRP), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), Esperance Plains (ESP), Eyre Yorke Block (EYB), Flinders Lofty Block (FLB), Flinders (FLI), Gawler (GAW), Geraldton Sandplains (GS), Gulf Plains (GUP), Jarrah Forest (JF), Kanmantoo (KAN), Mallee (MAL), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), Mount Isa Inlier (MII), Mulga Lands (ML), Nandewar (NAN), Naracoorte Coastal Plain (NCP), New England Tablelands (NET), NSW North Coast (NNC), NSW South Western Slopes (NSS), Riverina (RIV), Sydney Basin (SB), South East Coastal Plain (SCP), South East Corner (SEC), South Eastern Highlands (SEH), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Swan Coastal Plain (SWA), Victorian Midlands (VM), Victorian Volcanic Plain (VVP), Warren (WAR), Wet Tropics (WT), Yalgoo (YAL)

Original AFD Distribution Data

Australian Region

  • Australia
    • New South Wales: Murray-Darling basin, SE coastal
    • Queensland: Murray-Darling basin, N Gulf, NE coastal
    • South Australia: Murray-Darling basin, S Gulfs
    • Victoria: SE coastal
    • Western Australia: SW coastal

Ecological Descriptors

Arboreal, closed forest, diurnal, low open woodland, migratory, open forest, open heath, open scrub, tall forest, tall open shrubland, volant, woodland.

Extra Ecological Information

Arthropod-feeder, gregarious/randomly dispersed, seasonal breeder, solitary or in small groups during courtship and in loose flocks of 100 plus prior to migration, feeds by perch-and-pounce sallying, taking insects and their larvae, flies swiftly and directly in shallow undulations, brood parasite parasitizing hosts building domed nests (mainly species of Acanthiza Vigors & Horsfield, 1827 and, to a lesser extent, Malurus Vieillot, 1816), lays plain olive-bronze eggs, disperses northwards on migration in Feb.-Mar. after breeding, reaching Lesser Sundas, New Guinea and Bismarck Archipelago, and returning to breed in Aug.-Sept.

 

General References

Brooker, M. & Brooker, L. 1986. Identification and development of the nestling cuckoos, Chrysococcyx basalis and C. lucidus plagosus, in Western Australia. Australian Wildlife Research 13: 197-202 [Mathews, G.M. 1925. The Birds of Australia. Supplements 4 & 5. Bibliography of the Birds of Australia Pts 1 & 2. London : H.F. & G. Witherby viii 149 pp. (cf. Zimmer, J.T. 1926. Catalogue of the Edward E. Ayer Ornithological Library. Field Museum of Natural History Publications, Zoological Series 16: 1–364 (Pt 1, Publ. 239), 365–706 (Pt 2, Publ. 240))] (nidification)

Brooker, M.G., Brooker, L.C. & Rowley, I. 1988. Egg deposition by the bronze-cuckoos Chrysococcyx basalis and Ch. lucidus. The Emu 88: 107-109 (nidification)

Brooker, M.G. & Brooker, L.C. 1989. Cuckoo hosts in Australia. Australian Zoological Reviews 2: 1-67 (nidification)

Brooker, M.G. & Brooker, L.C. 1989. The comparative breeding behaviour of two sympatric cuckoos, Horsfield's Bronze-Cuckoo Chrysococcyx basalis and the Shining Bronze-Cuckoo C. lucidus, in Western Australia: a new model for the evolution of egg morphology and host specificity in avian brood parasites. Ibis 131: 528-547 [Duncan, F.M. 1937. On the dates of publication of the Society's 'Proceedings', 1859–1926. With an appendix containing the dates of publication of 'Proceedings', 1830–1858, compiled by the late F.H. Waterhouse, and of the 'Transactions', 1833–1869, by the late Henry Peavot, originally published in P.Z.S. 1893, 1913. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 107: 71–84] (nidification)

Gill, B.J. 1983. Morphology and migration of Chrysococcyx lucidus, an Australasian cuckoo. New Zealand Journal of Zoology 10: 371-382 (movements, taxonomy)

Marchant, S. 1986. A note on brood parasitism by the Shining Bronze-Cuckoo. Australian Birds 20: 82-85 (nidification)

Mayr, E. 1932. Birds collected during the Whitney South Sea Expedition. XIX Notes on the Bronze Cuckoo Chalcites lucidus and its subspecies. American Museum Novitates 520: 1-9 (movements, taxonomy)

 

History of changes

Note that this list may be incomplete for dates prior to September 2013.
Published As part of group Action Date Action Type Compiler(s)
03-Sep-2018 CUCULIDAE 09-Aug-2018 MODIFIED
23-Sep-2013 CUCULIDAE 23-Sep-2013 MODIFIED
12-Feb-2010 (import)