How much are we circumscribed in what we see by the maps we have to
hand? If it weren't for the distribution maps, I could've sworn that
this was a red-eye-ringed bronze-cuckoo.
I see in Simpson&Day's 1988 edition that the 1984 RAOU Atlas
345 gives southerly distribution of the Little Bronze-Cuckoo as, for
example, far-northeast NSW -- while later, in Pizzey&Knight (2003),
their digestion of three sources (Barrett et al, 2002; Schodde&Mason,
1999; & HANZAB) produces a distribution/map for the Little
Bronze-Cuckoo that ranges south to c.Kempsey.
The latest BA Atlas of Australian Birds certainly also shows
that there are no Little Bronze-Cuckoos anywhere near the Blue
Mountains at any time of year. Nevertheless, it is interesting to
know that the PCurrawong will eat any of the smaller bronze-cuckoos,
and I'm obliged to conclude that it was a commoner bronze-cuckoo for
that locality, with blood or haemorrhaging at the eye.
As Carol said, there is an amazing array of birds in Katoomba
even in the cold weather. It's a lesson in humility to see tiny birds
fluttering across the pale, crystalline sky there.
Cheers,
Judith.
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