birding-aus Black-eared Cuckoo in Gembrook, Victoria?

["S Cooney" <>]

Today, at Gembrook, Victoria, I saw a bird I couldn't I.D. even with the
field guides.

I think it was a Black-eared Cuckoo, the size seemed right and it presented
as a cuckoo, and it said peee (descending) and pee-o-wit, like the book
says it should, it had almost no tail to speak of just four little white
feathers in a fan shaped configuration,

HOWEVER:

It had a chestnut brown cap and dark scalloping on its breast.  It was in a
wet sclerophyll dense forest and it was being attended, or at least harried
by a Grey Shrike Thrush (of about the same size).  Finally it did not
really have a defined white eye brow.

Maybe it was a very young GST?  Maybe the chestnut head makes it one of the
bigger cuckoos.  I don't know.

Can anyone offer helpful suggestions?

Regards,

Stuart


Stuart Cooney


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