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Chestnut-breasted Cuckoo

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Subject: Chestnut-breasted Cuckoo
From: Phil & Sue Gregory <>
Date: Wed, 22 Apr 2009 08:57:32 +1000
Nice views of a calling Chestnut-breasted Cuckoo at Kingfisher Park Julatten, Far North Queensland on April 19, the bird is quite vocal and luckily started up just after we arrived around 3 pm. It's been around for a couple of weeks but is elusive, we tracked it and got it deep in a thicket near the toilet block. Keith and Lindsay Fisher get woken up by it some days! The call is very similar to Fan-tailed Cuckoo but slightly deeper and with shorter trills. It's a hill forest bird in New Guinea, whilst what is currently regarded as Fan-tailed Cuckoo there is montane, with a somewhat higher pitched call than the Australian birds.
Thanks to Keith and Lindsay at KP for their usual great hospitality.
Phil Gregory
www.cassowary-house.com.au
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