NATIVE BIRDS OF AUSTRALIA - CHANNEL BILLED CUCKOO
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- Опубликовано: 8 сен 2024
- An unusual parasitic bird, the Channel Billed Cuckoo lays it's eggs in other bird's nest. This is is the first I recall seeing at all in my backyard in over 20 years. There is actually a pair of them, spotted in another part of the neighbourhood.
nightmare bird, so nasty the way they work
they should call them politician birds lol
I have one of these in my backyard in North Sydney and he won’t shut up!!
We have 2 of these birds in SBH,Brisbane. So noisy,fed by a crow.
He have a few in Highfields north of Toowoomba at moment, they make a hell of a noise in the afternoon.
They don't normally inhabit Middle Percy Island in CQ but this year (Late Feb 2016) they are here in numbers. I am familiar with the sound of Storm Birds on the mainland in October / November but have never seen what they look like. Now I know.
Hi Alan, they regularly visit our neighbourhood (north-west Brisbane) in summer. They might use crows' nests as they are often in conflict. The noise early in the morning is unreal!
Thanks for the info, Steve. It's good to live in an area where a lot of the native birds come to with some of the ones I've seen. All these recordings become history! Cheers, Alan.
According to "The Slater Field Guide to Australian Birds", they migrate from PNG to eastern Oz between October and March. I haven't managed to capture one (camera) so am pretty impressed with your clip.
Steve Webster Thanks for that info. It was really quite a distance up in that tree so I was doing a good balancing to tree and get it!
I heard two of them very close at about 5:00AM today. Then crows saw them off.
Steve Webster They don't seem to be around my area lately. Though they do turn up in Otford so I'm told.
The cuckoo chicks are VERY noisy and run their poor "parents" ragged with endless demands for food. We have one in the backyard (Sydney) that is twice the size of its "mother", a magpie, yet still demanding to be fed!
Interesting...I have baby (nearly adult size) Rosellas visiting at the moment. Their feathers are still mainly green and haven't turned to the adult colours. But I get all birds visiting as shown by some of my other films. Thanks for the comment, cheers Alan
we have one in our 80 yr old plus jacaranda in the back yard, a baby from the sounds of it, as it is squawking from sun up to sun down, and I have seen 2 Kurrawongs feeding it. I have never seen one in Sydney before. We do get these bigger birds now, but with the advent of bigger homes, and smaller or no gardens, have lost many of the smaller bird species that were common 20 years ago. We never see blue wrens, willie wagtails, even sparrows are non existent. Without the shrubbery for the cover and nesting they have gone. :(