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Shining Bronze-cuckoo

Chalcites lucidus

Shining Bronze-cuckoo CALL Strongly supported

Putative nocturnal call type

Single, pure-sounding downward slurring whistle, starting at 4kHz and finishing on 2kHz.

Evidence for identification

Matches spectrograms of this call, which is also given in the daytime, although still need to make comparison figure.

Confidence statement

High confidence since this is a well-known vocalisation.

Similar species / confusion risks

Some care needed to separate from Horsfield's Bronze-cuckoo.

Project detections: 87 annotations; 34 nights; recorded in March, April, September, October, November; most recent detection 29 Apr 2026.

Project clips

Typical single downward slurring call note. Featured

Typical single downward slurring call note.

Carindale (-27.52, 153.11), 21 Apr 2022, 03:11:09, Annotation 231, Annotator: Richard Fuller, Automated light denoise applied

Very faint example.

Very faint example.

Carindale (-27.52, 153.11), 01 Oct 2021, 22:26:27, Annotation 524, Annotator: Richard Fuller, Automated light denoise applied

Shining Bronze-cuckoo CALL

Carindale (-27.52, 153.11), 22 Apr 2022, 04:14:32, Annotation 73, Annotator: Richard Fuller, Automated light denoise applied