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Currawong eats cuckoo? Katoomba!

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Subject: Currawong eats cuckoo? Katoomba!
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Date: Tue, 6 Jun 2006 12:10:55 +1000
How much are we circumscribed in what we see by the maps we have to hand? If it weren't for the distribution maps, I could've sworn that this was a red-eye-ringed bronze-cuckoo. I see in Simpson&Day's 1988 edition that the 1984 RAOU Atlas 345 gives southerly distribution of the Little Bronze-Cuckoo as, for example, far-northeast NSW -- while later, in Pizzey&Knight (2003), their digestion of three sources (Barrett et al, 2002; Schodde&Mason, 1999; & HANZAB) produces a distribution/map for the Little Bronze-Cuckoo that ranges south to c.Kempsey. The latest BA Atlas of Australian Birds certainly also shows that there are no Little Bronze-Cuckoos anywhere near the Blue Mountains at any time of year. Nevertheless, it is interesting to know that the PCurrawong will eat any of the smaller bronze-cuckoos, and I'm obliged to conclude that it was a commoner bronze-cuckoo for that locality, with blood or haemorrhaging at the eye. As Carol said, there is an amazing array of birds in Katoomba even in the cold weather. It's a lesson in humility to see tiny birds fluttering across the pale, crystalline sky there.

Cheers,
Judith.
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