Yesterday got a glimpse at at a juvenile pheasant coucal in our backyard
in Auchenflower, Brisbane (inner western suburbs, about 2 km east of Mt
Cootha). My wife had earlier got an excellent look at it as it rummaged
around in our garden beds - it flew up to the fence where she saw it
quite clearly and then it clumsily flew up into the neighbor's macadamia
tree. A bit later a pair of currawongs were chasing it away from a
nearby tree - I saw it crash back into the dense protection of the
macadamia.
About a year ago we saw an adult shoot across our backyard into the
hedge so would it be right to assume they are breeding in leafy
suburbia? The next door backyard was quite dense and overgrown until
recent weeks when yard "improvements" have seen it all cleared out
(thank god the trees were spared). But it was always fairly dense with
brush turkeys so I would have thought the big male would have chased
other ground dwelling birds away - he's aggressive enough even to the
magpies.
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