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Chalcites minutillus

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Description

LITTLE BRONZE CUCKOO Chalcites minutillus #

Range C. m. misoriensis Biak.

Status Biak endemic subspecies. Long known only from the female holotype taken by Beccari in May 1875 at Korrido (Salvadori 1875). However, recently, there has been a few observations of this taxon. 26 August 2007: one in southern Biak (Bengtsson 2007); 20 July 2009: one near Warafri (H. Matheve, eBird checklist S64759629); 8 November 2017: one in central-south Biak (A. Walker, eBird checklist S46415300); 27 September 2018: five near Warafri (J. Mazenauer, eBird checklist S48773694).

Notes

Published as part of Bishop, K. David, 2023, The avifauna of Biak Island, Papua, Indonesia with comments on status, conservation, natural history and taxonomy, pp. 3-62 in Bulletin of the British Ornithologists' Club 143 (1) on page 27, DOI: 10.25226/bboc.v143i1.2023.a2, http://zenodo.org/record/11642130

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Biodiversity

Scientific name authorship
Gould
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Chordata
Order
Cuculiformes
Family
Cuculidae
Genus
Chalcites
Species
minutillus
Taxon rank
species
Taxonomic concept label
Chalcites minutillus (Gould, 1859) sec. Bishop, 2023