Gold Coast
flora and fauna

A guide to the plants and animals that make our city one of the most biodiverse in Australia.
Phylum
CHORDATA
Class
AVES
Family
CUCULIDAE
Genus
Cacomantis
Species
variolosus
Fauna
True
Mapping

Common name
Brush Cuckoo
Alternate name
Historical
False
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NSW
EPBC
APC
ROTAP
Comment
Moderately common in thick forests.
LGA significant
False
Stronghold population
False
Wildnet record
False
Museum listing
True
Introduced
False
Qld Census
False
Regionally significant/rationale
False
Restricted distribution/rationale
False
Abundance
Common
Historical abundance
Endemicity
Overall distribution
Local distribution
Common in a variety of wooded habitats. Parisitic and partly migratory
Known location
Coomera, Eagleby, Elanora, Helensvale, Mudgeeraba, Advancetown, Tallebudgera Creek EP, Burleigh Head
Other locality
Moderately common summer visitor to rainforests, magroves and other thick forests.
Riparian dependent
False
Wetland dependent
False
Forest dependent
True
Hollow dependent
False
Terrestrial
True
Estuarine
False
Marine
False
General ecology
Rainforest, mangroves, riparian forests, wet sclerophyll forests, dry sclerophyll forests.
Specific ecology
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Community type
Migratory
False
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