Pallid Cuckoo DY & OB Oriole at Wamboin

["Philip Veerman" <>]

Yes there are prior cases like this but (to me) the very surprising thing is to have begging dependent young, (so presumably out of the nest), already by 2 September. That suggests both the cuckoos and hosts are breeding really early. Surely the average time for this would be early to mid summer........

 

Philip

 

 

-----Original Message-----
From: martin butterfield [
Sent: Thursday, 2 September 2010 10:00 AM
To: Bob Rusk
Cc: David McDonald;
Subject: Re: [canberrabirds] Pallid Cuckoo DY & OB Oriole at Wamboin

Bob

I think we
jumped the gun.  HANZAB says of pallid Cuckoos  "Many reports of
supposed fledgling cuckoos being fed by adult cuckoos."  Elsewhere in that
species account they mention the impact of the Juvenile's begging call causing
just about every bird in the neighbourhood to stop what they are doing and feed
the young Cuckoo.

Martin

On Thu, Sep 2, 2010 at 9:48 AM, Bob Rusk <> wrote:

Hi!

 

The Pallid Cuckoos must be new at parenting, as obviously they don't know that the normal thing is to get some other birds to do it.

Bob

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From: David McDonald <>
To: CanberraBirds <>
Sent: Thu, 2 September, 2010 9:31:29 AM
Subject: [canberrabirds] Pallid Cuckoo DY & OB Oriole at Wamboin

This morning, at Wamboin, two adult Pallid Cuckoos feeding a begging dependent young, plus our first OB Oriole for the season. It must be Spring!
David

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