7 Channel-billed Cuckoo at suppressed
Identification history
| Scythrops novaehollandiae | 16 Jan 2025 | MatthewFrawley | ||
| Eudynamys orientalis | 15 Jan 2025 | CarbonAI | ||
| Scythrops novaehollandiae | 15 Jan 2025 | LisaH |
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Significant sighting
MatthewFrawley noted:
16 Jan 2025
The Channel-billed Cuckoo is a rare summer migrant to the Canberra & Southern Tablelands region and this is the first confirmed breeding record for NatureMapr in this region.
User's notes
As I was leaving, I heard the loud and incessant call of a juvenile (I thought) currawong. However, there was something about the call that didn't quite ring true, as it reminded me of a channel-billed cuckoo fledgling that I had seen just a week ago at the coast (which I'd not seen or heard previously). Surely, it couldn't be a channel-bill fledgling here? Despite the building storm and thunder, I followed the call and spied a currawong parent. I continued the search, and to my amazement, found a young channel-billed cuckoo - here, near Braidwood!! I did not think they bred inland? I had heard an adult channel-bill in the area around October/November - perhaps they were the parents? I am intrigued by the similarity of the young channel-bill's call, to that of a currawong. I have video of both this bird, and the one down the coast . . . I'm guessing it would be quite an ask to be able to upload video as a sighting?
6 comments
HelenCross
wrote:
15 Jan 2025
Great record Lisa! If you upload your video to YouTube or another platform like Google Photos you can share a link to it
MatthewFrawley
wrote:
16 Jan 2025
Top find before a very big storm to hit the region, causing a lot of power outages.
LisaH
wrote:
16 Jan 2025
@MatthewFrawley Thank you - it was exciting, and unexpected. And coincidental that I saw it at that time, given the cuckoo is known colloquially as the storm-bird!
LisaH
wrote:
16 Jan 2025
@HelenCross No, sadly - all backed up physically. Hmmmmm. I'm wondering about my choices, right about now
Sighting information
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- 15 Jan 2025 02:51 PM Recorded on
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Species information
- Scythrops novaehollandiae Scientific name
- Channel-billed Cuckoo Common name
- Not Sensitive
- Rare or uncommon native
- Non-invasive or negligible
- Up to 619.59m Recorded at altitude
- Machine learning
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- More than one media file
- Verified by an expert moderator
- Nearby sighting(s) of same species
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