Re: Currawongs and Channel-billed Cuckoos

["Lesley & Michael Brooker" <>]

Hi Birders,

Whilst Channel-billed Cuckoos most often lay only one egg per host nest, it 
is not uncommon for them to lay two or even 3 in a nest. Goddard and 
Marchant (Australian Birds 17:65-72) have published a table in which they 
show some records of 5, 6, 7 and 8 cuckoo eggs in the nests of crows. Three 
was the most they recorded in a Pied Currawongs nest. Salter (Bird Observer 
559) found a nest with "three channel-bills of different ages, the first one 
leaving the nest three weeks before the last one. In 1977 the crows raised 
two of their own species plus one channel-bill. The young crows left the 
nest several weeks before the cuckoo.."
Lesley Brooker
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