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Fight Sequence of Channel-billed Cuckoos

To: Geoffrey Jones <>, Birding Aus <>
Subject: Fight Sequence of Channel-billed Cuckoos
From: Denise Goodfellow <>
Date: Sat, 02 Oct 2010 04:19:26 +0930
Hi Geoff
The organisers of the Birdfair told me that the numbers were an increase on
last year's.  Let's hope next year's crowd is even bigger!
Denise L Goodfellow


on 1/10/10 8:28 PM, Geoffrey Jones at  wrote:

> Good Evening All
> 
>                               Last Saturday Tom Tarrant showed me around his
> local patch in the Samford Valley area and we noticed a commotion going on
> in a gumtree away from the road, at first we saw a full adult Channel-billed
> Cuckoo hanging vertically off the bill of another one and then they tumbled
> to the ground and squared off to one another before locking their bills and
> wrestling till one had had enough and flew off, it was a truly amazing event
> and Tom and I were left stunned by what we had witnessed. I have put
> together 5 shots that I took from about 30 of the fight but I did not get
> any shots of them in the tree only on the ground
> http://barraimaging.com.au/gallery/thumbnails.php?album=lastup
> 
>  
> 
> On another note I also attended the Birdfair at Yanco in NSW and was
> surprised at the lack of people who attended as the quality of the speakers
> and the talks given were excellent, as well as the bird tours on offer.
> Personally I would like to see more people supporting this annual event as
> the organisers whom are all volunteers do a fantastic job.
> 
> Kindest Regards
> 
> Geoff Jones
> 
> Barraimaging
> 
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