Birds of Australia
Common Name: Channel-billed Cuckoo
Scientific Name: Scythrops-novaehollandiae
Channel-billed Cuckoo being feed by the host bird, a Pied Currawong.
The Channel-billed Cuckoo is a nest parasite, the female lays an egg in the hostbird's nest when the host mother is busy with the many other birds chasing the male around who is acting as a decoy.
Sometimes when the female cannot find a new host nest she will return to a known nest giving the host birds the added pressure of feeding two Channel billed-Cuckoos.
Channel-billed Cuckoo, Budgewoi, Nov 2013
Channel-billed Cuckoo, Budgewoi, Oct 2013
Channel-billed Cuckoo looking for a nest while the male is a decoy from aerial bombardment by Noisy Miners, Wattlebirds and Magpies.
A Juvenile Channel-billed Cuckoo who was momentarily stunned after flying into a wall.
Central Coast Wetlands Jan 2015
Channel-billed Cuckoo
Channel-billed Cuckoo
Channel-billed Cuckoo profile, apparantly Channel-billed Cuckoos like Mulberries.
Channel-billed Cuckoos courting Budgewoi, NSW Oct 2013
My one and only scientific article was about my new discovery of Channel-billed Cuckoos performing a previously undescribed courtship display you can read about here
Channel-billed Cuckoos courting Budgewoi, NSW Oct 2013
Channel-billed Cuckoos courtship and on-lookers. Budgewoi, NSW Oct 2013
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