Channel-billed Cuckoo
Scythrops novaehollandiae

The Channel-billed Cuckoo migrates down from New Guinea and Indonesia in our summer to breed. It parasitises the nest of Magpies, Crows and the Pied Currawong. Often called the Storm-bird as it arrives in Nth Queensland in (October-November) and it's raucous call heralds the first storms of the season. In flight it resembles a flying walking stick.

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Photographed at Maryfarms
by David & Diane Armbrust