channel-bill cuckoos, Yungaburra, north Qld

[Sue Dawson <>]

Ours arrived on 17th September, about one week earlier than previous years 
(25km se of Brisbane central).

Sue

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> On 8 Oct 2018, at 9:08 am, Gordon Claridge <> wrote:
> 
> Here in the Vinegar Hill area (~30km E of Toowoomba, Queensland) they have 
> turned up between 17 and 21 September almost every year for the 20 years we 
> have kept records.
> 
> This year we heard the first call on 9 September and then nothing until the 
> 29th.
> 
> Could the difference be the very low rainfall over the past two years?  Maybe 
> they are keeping on going without stopping here.  
> 
> This year we had only 88mm from the end of March to the end of September.  
> Thousands of mature stringy-bark eucalypts along the ridges (shallow soils?) 
> are completely brown (unclear yet whether they are dead) as are acacias and 
> some ironbarks.  The ridge tops are obvious in the view as lines of brown 
> across the landscape.  These aren’t young trees, but decades old mature 
> trees, many in the National Park on our boundary.
> 
> Gordon
>> On 7 Oct 2018, at 5:31 PM, Helen Larson <> wrote:
>> 
>> Heard one here in big paperbarks at Wongaling Beach FNQ yesterday afternoon 
>> about 3pmish. 
>> Helen
>> 
>> Sent from my iPhone
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>>> On 8 Sep 2018, at 7:39 am, Alan Gillanders <> 
>>> wrote:
>>> 
>>> Greetings,
>>> 
>>> I heard my first Chanel-billed cuckoos for the season this morning at about 
>>> 6 am. It sounded like two or more birds. Later I heard a single bird 
>>> calling at about 0620. This is by far the earliest I’ve recorded them in 
>>> Yungaburra.
>>> 
>>> Regards,
>>> 
>>> Alan
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