Real gold cuckoos
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Magnificent cuckoo ( Chrysococcyx maculatus ) |
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The actual gold cuckoos ( Chrysococcyx ) form a genus of the subfamily Cuculinae in the cuckoo family . The name Chrysococcyx is composed of the Greek words khrusos for gold and kokkux for cuckoo . The Latin epithet »lucidus« stands for »bright«.
features
The real gold cuckoos are small cuckoos that are particularly noticeable for their green, brown or gold shiny plumage . The name Chrysococcyx , which is composed of the Greek words for gold ( chrysos ) and cuckoo ( kokyx ) , also refers to this . All species of this genus are breeding parasites and live in the Paleotropic and Australis .
Systematics
The genus includes 7 species. The German names follow Avibase.
- Gold cuckoo ( Chrysococcyx caprius )
- Emerald Cuckoo ( Chrysococcyx cupreus )
- Yellow-throated Cuckoo ( Chrysococcyx flavigularis )
- Klaaskuckuck ( Chrysococcyx klaas )
- Magnificent cuckoo ( Chrysococcyx maculatus )
- Gould's Cuckoo ( Chrysococcyx poecilurus )
- Amethyst cuckoo ( Chrysococcyx xanthorhynchus )
Based on genetic studies, the species that occur in the Orientalis and Australis and that used to be counted among the real gold cuckoos are now listed by most authors as a separate genus under the name Chalcites . Which includes:
- Red-tailed cuckoo ( Chalcites basalis )
- Black-eared Cuckoo ( Chalcites osculans )
- Red-necked bronze cuckoo ( Chalcites ruficollis )
- Bronze cuckoo ( Chalcites lucidus )
- Red-winged bronze cuckoo ( Chalcites meyerii )
- Small bronze cuckoo ( Chalcites minutillus )
- Thick -billed bronze cuckoo ( Chalcites crassirostris )
Trivia
- The German name and the specific epithet of the Klaaskuckuck honor the Khoikhoi servant Klaas of the French naturalist and zoologist François Levaillant , who found the bird in 1784.
- The scientific name of the red-winged bronze cuckoo honors the discoverer of the species, the ornithologist Adolf Bernhard Meyer .
literature
- Johannes Erritzøe , Clive F. Mann, Frederik Brammer, Richard A. Fuller: Cuckoos of the World (Helm Identification Guides) . Christopher Helm Publishers Ltd, London 2012. ISBN 978-071-366-034-0 .
- MK Rowan: The Doves, Parrots, Louries, and Cuckoos of Southern Africa . D. Philipp, Cape Town 1983. ISBN 978-0-908396-66-5 .
- Leslie Christides, Walter Boles: Systematics and Taxonomy of Australian Birds . CSIRO Publishing, 2008. ISBN 978-064-306-511-6 .
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ James A. Jobling, p. 105
- ↑ James A. Jobling, p. 232
- ↑ Rowan p. 334
- ↑ Erritzoe et al. P. 337
- ↑ Erritzoe et al. P. 12
- ↑ Avibase [1] accessed on August 23, 2012
- ↑ a b Bo Beolens, Michael Watkins: Whose Bird? Men and Women commemorated in the common names of Birds ( English ). Christopher Helm, London 2003, p. 205.