Black-faced Cuckoo-shrikes turn up in flocks of 20-30 birds at Kiunga,
Western Province PNG each April, and are present throughout the winter
months; I always assumed they were Australian migrants, as they come in
along with the Channel-billed Cuckoos and Australian Koels. We would
also get small numbers of Buff-breasted Paradise-Kingfishers, even up
to 500m at Tabubil in the hills there, though Hooded Pitta would also
turn up in July so local movements are also involved and the P-K could
perhaps be from local PNG birds.
Amazing how migration in this part of the world is so different to the
much more clear-cut mainly N-S movements in Europe and N. America.
Phil Gregory
Cassowary House
Kuranda
www.cassowary-house.com.au
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