Hi Birders,
I was interested to hear that Belle says that she
can hear a Channel-billed Cuckoo near her place on the South Coast of NSW. This
would be very unusual because Channel-billed Cuckoos are regular summer migrants
in NSW arriving in mid to late September and departing around February. The
Narooma-Bega area represents their normal southern limit in NSW, so to have one
calling dowm there at present would be unexpected although in recent times
I remember that there was an early South Coast rcord in August.
Alan Morris
Records Officer
Birding NSW
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