You can tell a channelled billed cuckoo call - they sound like a loud Goose
with a bad cold! Aside from that, you'll hear a bunch of harsh scoldings
from all the other birds in the area:)
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> Date: Wed, 2 Apr 2008 12:50:03 +1100
> From: "Peter Shute" <>
> Subject: RE: [Birding-Aus] Channel-billed Cuckoo heard (not?) -
> Bright, Vic
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> I've had second thoughts about my ability to id a CBC by call, and now
> after listening to several BOCA CD recordings several times my memory of
> the call is playing tricks on me and is sounding like a Noisy Friarbird!
> I was pretty sure at the time, but NF is a far more likely bird to find
> there. I'm annoyed that I've mixed up the calls and I'm still not sure
> either way.
>
> Peter Shute
>
> wrote on Sunday, 23 March 2008 9:23
> AM:
>
> > I heard a Channel-billed Cuckoo at the reservoirs on Bakers
> > Gully Rd 1.7km south of Bright, Victoria, on Friday (21/3/08)
> > afternoon and Saturday morning, but not Saturday afternoon.
> > I expect this is not unheard of here, but a little unusual?
> >
> > Both times it only called for 10 seconds. I could narrow it
> > down to one or two trees but couldn't see it.
> >
> > Peter Shute
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