Birds of the World

    CUCULIFORMES: Cuculidae (Cuckoos)  
Genus: Chrysococcyx (13 species)


Horsfield's Bronze Cuckoo
Horsfield's Bronze Cuckoo (Chrysococcyx basalis)
Range: AU: Australia and Tasmania
Rise and Shine Nature Reserve, Clydesdale, Victoria, Australia  
 
Photograph by Patrick Kavanagh     Copyright and usage info


Diederik Cuckoo
Diederik Cuckoo (Chrysococcyx caprius) Male
Range: AF: widespread; also se Arabian Pen.
Kruger National Park, South Africa  
 
Photograph by Bernie DUPONT     Copyright and usage info

Diederik Cuckoo
Diederik Cuckoo (Chrysococcyx caprius) Female
Range: AF: widespread; also se Arabian Pen.
Rietvlei Nature Reserve, South Africa  
 
Photograph by Derek Keats     Copyright and usage info

Diederik Cuckoo
Diederik Cuckoo (Chrysococcyx caprius) Immature
Range: AF: widespread; also se Arabian Pen.
Ndutu, Tanzania  
 
Photograph by Nik Borrow     Copyright and usage info


African Emerald Cuckoo
African Emerald Cuckoo (Chrysococcyx cupreus)
Range: AF: Senegal and Gambia to South Sudan and Ethiopia, s to Angola and e South Africa
Kakum National Park, Ghana  
 
Photograph by Charles J. Sharp/Sharp Photography     Copyright and usage info


Yellow-throated Cuckoo
Yellow-throated Cuckoo (Chrysococcyx flavigularis)
Range: AF: Sierra Leone to Ghana, Cameroon to e DR Congo and Gabon
Bonkro, Ghana  
 
Photograph by Nik Borrow     Copyright and usage info


Klaas's Cuckoo
Klaas's Cuckoo (Chrysococcyx klaas)
Range: AF, PAL: widespread in Sub-Saharan Africa. Also sw Arabian Pen.
South Africa  
 
Photograph by Graham Searll   © All Rights Reserved.


Shining Bronze Cuckoo
Shining Bronze Cuckoo (Chrysococcyx lucidus lucidus)
Range: AU: w, nc, e, se Australia, Solomon Is., Vanuatu, New Caledonia, and New Zealand region including Chatham Is. (e of North I.)
Sandford, Tasmania, Australia  
 
Photograph by JJ Harrison     Copyright and usage info


Asian Emerald Cuckoo
Asian Emerald Cuckoo (Chrysococcyx maculatus)
Range: OR: Himalayas to sc China and se Asia
Khao Yai National Park, Pak Chong, Thailand  
 
Photograph by JJ Harrison     Copyright and usage info


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Long-billed Cuckoo (Chrysococcyx megarhynchus)
Range: AU: Raja Ampat Is. (nw of New Guinea), Aru Is. (sw of New Guinea) and New Guinea
 



White-eared Bronze Cuckoo
White-eared Bronze Cuckoo (Chrysococcyx meyerii)
Range: AU: montane Batanta (Raja Ampat Is., nw of New Guinea), New Guinea and Goodenough (D'Entrecasteaux Arch., e of se New Guinea)
Dablin Creek, Papua New Guinea  
 
Photograph by Nik Borrow     Copyright and usage info


Little Bronze Cuckoo
Little Bronze Cuckoo (Chrysococcyx minutillus)
Range: OR, AU: se Asia to Philippines, Lesser Sundas and n, e Australia
Australia  
 
Photograph by Brian McCauley     Copyright and usage info


Black-eared Cuckoo
Black-eared Cuckoo (Chrysococcyx osculans)
Range: AU: Australia (except Tasmania)
Australia  
 
Photograph by Brian McCauley     Copyright and usage info


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Rufous-throated Bronze Cuckoo (Chrysococcyx ruficollis)
Range: AU: montane New Guinea
 



Violet Cuckoo
Violet Cuckoo (Chrysococcyx xanthorhynchus xanthorhynchus)
Range: OR: ne India and se Asia to Philippines
Wat Chalermphrakiat, Nonthaburi, Thailand  
 
Photograph by Somchai Kanchanasut   © All Rights Reserved.



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