Hi everyone
I gleaned these two posts from one of the
political blogs I follow. I thought you might be interested in
non-birdo views of Koels and Channel-billed Cuckoos. I don't know
where the posters live, or who they are.
Con
OzPol Tragic
'Good Morning, Bludgers.
3 drenching summers, and I’d
forgotten about “storm birds”
(koels); nature’s sound-proofing & ear-plug piercing,
continuous (from
pre-dawn onwards) Weapons of Mass Human Sleep Destruction. 3.30
start this
morning; still going at 5.45!'
Bushfire Bill
'Looks like the bloody
channel-billed cuckoos are back and
looking for the Currawong family’s nest.
That means no currawong chicks (they die of
starvation) for
the second year in a row and currawong parents exhausted by the
end of summer.
Incessant baying of cuckoo chicks
being raised by currawong
foster parents half their size nearly drives me crazy. Starts
5.30am, continues
to 8.30pm, non-stop right outside my office window (seemingly, at
least).
At the end of all this parasitism,
the cuckoo parents come
back, rested, and scoop the (by now) fully grown foster children
up for a
flight back north.
Currawong parents nearly dead from
feeding the invaders.'
