Horsfield's Bronze-cuckoos

[Martin Butterfield <>]

Jack

I am not brilliant at recognising calls let alone transcribing them.  My description would be "a descending whistle, but a bit faster and shorter than the normal Horsfields call".  All four of them seemed to be calling so the hysteria seemed to be slf-reinforcing.

Martin

Martin Butterfield

http://franmart.blogspot.com.au/

On 25 January 2015 at 11:10, Jack & Andrea Holland <> wrote:

Very interesting observation Martin, and possibly (probably?) another example of fledged young of this cuckoo species associating/interacting with adults (I noted two apparent examples of this in my December Gang-gang column).  Was the brief call made the normal one for this species?

 

I am interested in this phenomenon, particularly in Koels as I raised in my chat line post during last week.

 

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Jack Holland  

 

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My GBS site has just been visited by 4 Horsfields Bronze-cuckoos.  2 had almost unbarred breasts but all were chasing each other around the canopy of some moderate sized eucalypts making  brief version of their call.  I'd normally regard this as display.

Martin Butterfield

http://franmart.blogspot.com.au/