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Fan-tailed Cuckoo at Bluetts Block this morning (?)

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Subject: Fan-tailed Cuckoo at Bluetts Block this morning (?)
From: Steve Read <>
Date: Sat, 4 May 2019 00:39:45 +0000

Bluetts Block was quiet and still in the cool sunshine this morning. There was evidence of the recent rain, and a number of Spotted Pardalotes were hanging around a puddle at the side of the (recently graded) track. A flock of Yellow-tailed Black-cockatoos came through to break the quiet.

 

One of the bird calls in the background was a repeated descending trill, in the ‘bouncing-ball’ style of a Fan-tailed Cuckoo. I entered the observation into eBird under this species (https://ebird.org/australia/view/checklist/S55735919), being slightly surprised by hearing it at this season. but was wondering: is there any other species I could have confused this call with? I’m reasonably confident that it wasn’t a White-throated Treecreeper, Eastern Yellow Robin or Eastern Spinebill.

 

Steve

 

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