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Cuckoo, Horsefield’s Bronze-cuckoo

Chalcites basalis


Widespread in lightly wooded habitats from open forests to
lightly treed grasslands and vegetation remnant in farmland and urban areas.
Mainly parasitises fairy-wrens and thornbills. Mainly a summer migrant to s
Australia, occurs in n Australia all year.

Classifications: Bird, forest and grassland
Family: Cuculidae
Information sources: The Australian Bird Guide, Peter Menkhorst et al

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