Species of Thailand
Little bronze cuckoo
Chrysococcyx minutillus
John Gould, 1859
In Thai: นกคัคคูสีทองแดง
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 17 g and 15 cm. 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 species. Found on Babar, Kai and Tanimbar Islands
- C. m. salvadorii (Hartert & Stresemann, 1925) – Babar Islands
- C. m. misoriensis (Salvadori, 1876) – Biak (Schouten Islands)
- C. m. poecilurus G.R.Gray, 1862 – coastal New Guinea and northern Queensland
- C. m. minutillus Gould, 1859 – northern Australia
- C. m. barnardi Mathews, 1912 – eastern Australia
- C. m. russatus Gould, 1868 – (Gould's bronze cuckoo) - formerly considered by some authorities as a separate species. Found in north-eastern Australia, New Guinea
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Category / Seasonal Status
BCST Category: Recorded in an apparently wild state within the last 50 years
BCST Seasonal status: Resident or presumed resident
Scientific classification
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Chordata
- Class
- Aves
- Order
- Cuculiformes
- Family
- Cuculidae
- Genus
- Chrysococcyx
- Species
- Chrysococcyx minutillus
Common names
- Thai: นกคัคคูสีทองแดง
Subspecies
Chrysococcyx minutillus aheneus, George Christoffel Alexander Junge, 1938
Range: Borneo and the southern Philippines
Chrysococcyx minutillus albifrons, George Christoffel Alexander Junge, 1938
Range: Sumatra and western Java
Chrysococcyx minutillus barnardi, Gregory Macalister Mathews, 1912
Range: Eastern Australia
Chrysococcyx minutillus crassirostris, Tommaso Salvadori, 1878
Common name: Pied bronze cuckoo
Range: Maluku and Tanimbar Islands
Chrysococcyx minutillus jungei, Erwin Stresemann, 1938
Range: Sulawesi, Flores and Madu Island
Chrysococcyx minutillus minutillus, Gould, 1859
Range: Northern Australia
Chrysococcyx minutillus misoriensis, Tommaso Salvadori, 1876
Range: Biak (Schouten Islands)
Chrysococcyx minutillus peninsularis, S. A. Parker, 1981
Range: Southern Thailand and the Malay Peninsula
Chrysococcyx minutillus poecilurus, George Robert Gray, 1862
Range: Coastal New Guinea and northern Queensland
Chrysococcyx minutillus rufomerus, Ernst Johann Otto Hartert, 1900
Common name: Green-cheeked bronze cuckoo
Range: Lesser Sunda Islands
Chrysococcyx minutillus salvadorii, Ernst Johann Otto Hartert & Erwin Stresemann, 1925
Range: Babar Islands
Conservation status
Least Concern (IUCN3.1)