>Just a brief note regarding a bird with a great sense of timing and irony. I
>do a fortnightly natural history show on the local ABC, and yesterday played
>a tape of a Koel. One had been reported calling in suburban Canberra - we
>get the very occasional vagrant - and I wanted listeners to keep an ear
>open. I got one call from someone who had one in her yard, inviting me to go
>and see it. I accepted (in 17 years in the ACT, I've not seen one here), but
>it didn't co-operate.
>
>I arrived home an hour or so later (in central Canberra) - and it, or a
>mate, was calling in my back yard!! An adult male, with eyes bigger and
>redder than the plums in the tree in which it sat.
>
>I know it's no big deal for anyone living north of here, but we were rapt.
>I'm also intrigued by the fact that it obviously listens to the ABC!
>
If the Koel had tuned in your radio you could then be impressed. It seems
pretty obvious it would listen to whatever was playing nearest to it or
within Koel earshot.:-)
Alan
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