Results - Channel-billed Cuckoo survey
Juvenile Channel-billed Cuckoo being fed by Pied Currawong.Photo: Bruce Thomas © Bruce Thomas
Juvenile Channel-billed Cuckoo being fed by Pied Currawong.Photo: Bruce Thomas © Bruce Thomas
Juvenile Channel-billed Cuckoo being fed by Pied Currawong.Photo: Bruce Thomas © Bruce Thomas
Like 2006, Channel-billed Cuckoos started to arrive in Australia in 2007 in the month of September. Birds in Backyards surveys recorded more activity early in the 2007 season compared with 2006. By the middle of December there were nearly twice as many individual birds recorded as in 2006. This does not appear to be due simply to a change in the number of people contributing to the surveys, as there has been similar level of survey activity in the two years.
Although most survey records are observations of birds, rather than birds at nests, we are starting to build up a body of information about the most common cuckoo hosts. Pied currawongs have been recorded as the most common host species with other hosts including Australian Magpies, Australian Ravens and single observations of Torresian Crows and Red Wattlebirds.
Australia-wide records of the Channell-billed Cuckoo
December 2007
Records of the Channell-billed Cuckoo from Sydney
December 2007
Site records of Channel-billed Cuckoos in 2006 and 2007
Hosts of Channel-billed Cuckoos
