Ian
I saw group display behaviour amongst some bronze-cuckoos on Singapore
last year. The birds there were interacting intensely and, inter alia,
lifting one wing at a time, not far from the vertical.
Con
On 4/11/2012 2:48 PM, Ian Fraser wrote:
This morning along the Sanctuary boarkwalk at Tidbinbilla I and a
number of other people watched Horsfield's Bronze-Cuckoo behaviour
that I hadn't seen before, and which doesn't seem to have been widely
reported.
From a distance it sounded like a flock of them, which made me wonder if
I was totally misidentifying the calls. There were 3 birds, moving
slowly through the trees, but in the process constantly chasing each
other, calling constantly and continually stopping to display with
spread wings and a quivering posture; this was usually done on an open
branch, sometimes very close to one of the others. We watched for most
of half an hour, and in the end left them to it.
cheers
Ian
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