eISSN: 1800-427X (online)
DOI:10.47605/tapro.v14i1.357Submitted date: 24 December 2024
Accepted date: 21 April 2025
Published date: 31 May 2025
Pp. 77–78.
First record of shining bronze cuckoo (Chalcites lucidus) west of the Wallace LineA.C. Herwanto, H. Susanto & R. Eprilurahman
*Corresponding author. E-mail: rurybiougm@ugm.ac.id
As part of bird monitoring activities in the working area of the Yogyakarta Natural Resources Conservation Agency (Balai Konservasi Sumber Daya Alam Yogyakarta), particularly in Gunungkidul Regency, officials unintentionally documented the presence of a Shining Bronze-cuckoo,
Chalcites lucidus (Gmelin, 1788). We photographed a single individual on 21 June 2024 that we initially misidentified as a Horsfield's Bronze-cuckoo,
Chalcites basalis Section Editor: Bas van Balen