Shining Bronze Cuckoo

Chrysococcyx lucidus

The shining bronze cuckoo or pīpīwharauroa is a species of cuckoo in the family Cuculidae, found in Australia, Indonesia, New Caledonia, New Zealand, Papua New Guinea, Solomon Islands, and Vanuatu. It was formerly placed in the genus Chrysococcyx. Source

Where it is now

In the last 8 weeks this bird was recorded 119,322 times across 20 areas (each area is a 5 degree square).

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Movement and weather

Each season it is first heard regularly where daytime highs are around 16°C (typically 15 to 24°C, from 12 areas).

Over the weeks it was present in the past year, its centre in Oceania ranged from 39°S in November to 26°S in March, about 1,500 km apart.

Arrival dates

The week it was first heard regularly in each region, after at least six weeks away. Dates differ from south to north, so a region has a range.

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Figures are effort corrected and come from automatic sound identification, which makes mistakes. How this is measured and how it compares with human observers.