Fan-tailed Cuckoo Calling

["Chris Baxter" <>]

Hi All

On Kangaroo Island in SA, Fantailed cuckoos do not call throughout the year.
They are quite strictly July to about January and quiet thereafter. I
generally regard their calls in July as a first indicator of the approaching
late winter-spring-summer breeding season.

Cheers

Chris Baxter

-----Original Message-----
From: 
 On Behalf Of Philip Veerman
Sent: Sunday, July 20, 2008 3:35 PM
To: L&L Knight
Cc: Birding-aus (E-mail)
Subject: Fan-tailed Cuckoo Calling

Not really "a sure sign that the breeding season has started" (although that
depends on how you define "season" and "started"). I heard them in two
places about 50 km apart in two days in late May on the NSW south coast.
They will call through the year.

Philip