Alan Morris wrote:
Hi Birders,
When reading Kurtis Lindsey's decription
of what be believed to be an Oriental Cuckoo on the wires at Killara I was
of the view that perhaps the bird was not an Oriental Cuckoo but rather
a common old Pallid Cuckoo.
I say this for several reasons, the first
is that Pallid Cuckoos are irregular visitors to Sydney, they are regular
in spring to western Sydney and the Hawkesbury area and less common in the
eastern and northern suburbs, so the Pallid Cuckoo cannot be ruled out because
it does "not occur" as it can and occasionally "does occur". Furthermore
they can breed on the North Shore and immature birds can have barred breasts.
To confirm this, I can report that there has been a Pallid Cuckoo calling
for the last few weeks on the Cooks River, near Tempe Station in Sydney's
inner west. This is my first record for the area.
Alistair
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Dr Alistair G. B. Poore
School of Biological, Earth and Environmental Sciences
University of New South Wales
Sydney, 2052
Australia
Phone: 61 2 9385 2154 Fax: 61 2 9385 1558
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