Coucals Again.

[Allan Lees <>]

Apparently incompetent fliers can travel long distances: crakes and 
rails spring to mind...
Allan Lees



Andrew Taylor wrote:

> On Sun, Nov 13, 2005 at 10:03:17AM +1100, Bruce Cox wrote:
>  
>
> > My thanks to Mark of "North Head Bird Surveys" and Mike Tarburton. They
> > indicate coucals can fly at least 300 metres in level flight and suggest
> > this is how they get across open areas.
> >    
> They have a number of Asian and African congeners so presumably ancestral
> coucals made a sea journey of many kilometres across Wallace's line some
> millions of years ago.  But they may have more able fliers.
>
> Andrew
>
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