ID this bird please

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Art
ID this bird please

Found this bird in backyard, can someone tell me what it is please.  

Beef
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It's a cuckoo not sure which one though.

Try shining bronze cuckoo?

rozkidd
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Hi is it Horsfield's Bronze Cuckoo?  You have taken fantastic photos of it.

Art

Thank you Beef

Art

Thank you Rozkidd. We live at Coffs Harbour NSW, never seen one in backyard before.

I have other photographs of it as well.

GregL
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They often fly into windows, then sit in the garden as they gather their wits. Yours was probably recovering from hitting a window.

SteveM
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It's a Shining Bronze-Cuckoo, not a Horsfield's which have an obvious dark stripe thru the eye.

Cheers, Steve

Art

GregL wrote:

They often fly into windows, then sit in the garden as they gather their wits. Yours was probably recovering from hitting a window.

Yes it did fly into a window.

Art

SteveM wrote:

It's a Shining Bronze-Cuckoo, not a Horsfield's which have an obvious dark stripe thru the eye.

Cheers, Steve

Yes Steve, after looking at other photos it looks like a Shining Bronze-Cuckoo.

Thanks Steve

Cheers Art.

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