That's interesting... Myself and Ashwin Rudder observed a Magpie with a
bloody pink bald head 3 days ago at Eastlakes Golf Course in Sydney. Since
Magpies are also hosts to Channel-bills, maybe it's related...
Cheers,
Joshua Bergmark
On 6 January 2014 15:48, Greg Roberts <> wrote:
> An ever-hungry juvenile Channel-billed Cuckoo is presently being attended
> by
> its foster parent, a Pied Currawong, in my Sunshine Coast garden. The
> curious thing is that the head of the currawong is bald, with the area of
> baldness coinciding with the extent of the bird's head that disappears into
> the mouth of the cuckoo at feeding time. So, is the currawong losing
> feathers due to cuckoo-feeding?
>
>
>
> http://tinyurl.com/pr7alus
>
> Greg Roberts
>
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