G'day
I was doing the rounds of the Roma St Parklands at lunch time when I
saw a bronze cuckoo by the lake in the RSP - it was a small passerine
about the size of a brown honeyeater, albeit broader in the body and a
squarer tail. It had a couple of broad bars on its under tail coverts,
barring on its chest and shining bronze-green wing coverts when angled
in the sun, grey otherwise. Without binos I could see it had a brown
eye but couldn't discern an eye ring.
I suspect it was an immature Little-Bronze Cuckoo. It the first small
cuckoo I've seen in an inner city location, and an unusual bird to see
less than a kilometre from the concrete jungle. Is it likely to be
migrating south?
The other passage migrant seen in the parklands is a Rufous Fantail,
lurking in the "rainforest" section. There is also a Buff-banded Rail
running around in the gardens that back onto Wickham Tce. There used
to be a few running around the Spectacle Garden, but they disappeared
years ago.
Regards, Laurie.
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