The Hughes Koel has been moving around recently, but I caught up with
it in Maygar Street last night at about 8pm (though unfortunately I
didn't have my binoculars).
It was perched in a tall gum tree on quite an exposed perch. When it
called it pushed its head forward, the body was almost horizontal, but
the back was concave. I couldn't see whether the beak was open or
closed. It called once or twice and then turned 90 degrees and called
again, and then turned another 90 degrees to call once more, it looked
as if it was simply circling around the compass points to broadcast
its call in all directions. Then what could have been a female
answered from one direction and it immediately turned towards the
sound and began calling excitedly, still saying 'Ko-el', but several
times in succession instead of twice, and higher in pitch and volume.
The other bird didn't reply (and I didn't find it to confirm the
presence of a female), and after a while the male lost interest, and
soon after flew off in the opposite direction to the other call.
--
John Leonard
Canberra
Australia
www.jleonard.net
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