Last week on our bush block we watched three Shining Bronze-Cuckoos
displaying in the same way for about an hour.
The light was low in the forest so the photos are noisy but for your
interest, a few I took of the
activity can be found here:
https://picasaweb.google.com/bronkin/ShiningBronzeCuckoos?authkey=Gv1sRgCMC_4YjLg6PN3wEAt
The birds displayed as readily on or near the ground/on logs, as high
in the trees.
cheers
Bron
02:48 PM 4/11/2012, 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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Environment Tours; Vertego Environmental Consultancy
PO Box 4148, Weston Creek, ACT 2611
ph: 61 2 6287 4813
Blog: http://ianfrasertalkingnaturally.blogspot.com.au
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