Shining Cuckoo Bird. The Shining Bronze-Cuckoo Chrysococcyx lucidus previously Chalcites lucidus is a cuckoo found in Australia Indonesia New Caledonia New Zealand Papua New Guinea Solomon Islands and Vanuatu. Provided to YouTube by Believe SASShining Cuckoo Pipiwharauroa Birds of New ZealandLand Bird Calls Sea Bird Calls Viking Sevenseas LtdReleased on.
The shining cuckoo shining bronze-cuckoo in Australia is a summer migrant to New Zealand. It prefers to lay a single egg in the nest of the Grey Warbler but has also been known to use fantail tit and waxeye nests. The cuckoo order Cuculiformes is one of three that make up the Otidimorphae the other two being the turacos and the bustards.
On first hearing the welcome cry the children greeted the bird with the following song.
The shining cuckoo also known as bronze cuckoo is a migratory bird that spends the New Zealand winters in New Guinea and the Solomon Islands returning here only to breed over the summer months. In Australia thornbills Acanthiza fairy-wrens Malurus and robins Petroica known hosts with both domed nests and open nestsMutual feeding apparently between mates reported from New Caledonia 2 Okahisa Y. It has a distinctive whistling call. However it was probably from observing the long tailed cuckoo Koekoea which winters chiefly in Fiji Tonga Samoa Cook Society and Tuamotu groups which lead the voyaging ancestors of Maori to believe that there was land to the south.