How do young cuckoos get together? Also Goshawks.

[Julian Robinson <>]

It's been brought up before but I was interested to see in the old Mugga
Zoo on Saturday, two immature Horsefields Bronze Cuckoos keeping
company around the dam.  My continuing question is how (and why) do
young cuckoos get together since they would have to be raised in separate
nests?

Incidentally for those following the nesting goshawks there, I was
disappointed to find that the nest was deserted and I couldn't see a
goshawk anywhere.  Then while later doing something else, the bloody
Goshawk swooped me from behind yet again and so a) scared the pants off
me, and b) alerted me to their presence - which I would have missed
entirely otherwise.  They have raised two young which at that stage
could fly well but still dependent.

Julian