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Hi Birders,
I was surprised to see the comment by Peter Adderly
today who said" By the number of dead baby birds lying around the streets of the
Central Coast and the almost continuing cackling sounds I'd say we'll have a lot
of Channel-bills this spring...".
As a resident of the Central Coast and a person who
is out and about daily looking at birds, all I can say is I have neither heard a
Channel-bill so far, nor seen any baby birds on the streets! Surely Peter
Adderly is exaggerating! The actual action of a Channel-billed Cuckoo
destroying/evicting eggs & young from Pied Currawaong nests, in order to
make the host birds relay so that the cuckoos can synchonise their egg laying is
rarely seen and most people would be totally oblivious to this activity. The
first Central Coast Channel-billed Cuckoo was not noted until 8/9/01 at Empire
Bay.
Alan Morris
Central Coast FOC Group
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