Watching out from a high branch!
The Channel-billed cuckoo is a bit of a villain. Native to Australia, Papua New Guinea and Indonesia, it is is the largest brood parasite in the world, and the largest cuckoo. This is a juvenile male that stopped by our neighbourhood this week.
Perched on Debbie’s Six Word Saturday
Wow you’d need a big clock for him!
Absolutely. The folks in the Black Forest are lucky with theirs ?
Hee hee!!
I feel sorry for the foster parents!
So do we, as they are mostly much smaller breeds ?
Are your Cuckoo numbers stable? The English Cuckoo is in serious decline, they think because of climate change but not 100% sure
I confess I had to look this up, Becky. No, not considered endangered. They do spend most of their year further north than Sydney, so this was my first sighting (but I may have heard them before)
That’s good to hear, and how exciting this was your first sighting ?