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Where are the Pallid Cuckoos this year?

To: Thomas Shannon <>, 'Steve Clark' <>, 'Lawrie Conole' <>, 'Birding-Aus' <>
Subject: Where are the Pallid Cuckoos this year?
From: Maris Lauva <>
Date: Mon, 28 Sep 2015 02:08:28 +0000
That's 'coz they've all come to the sunny West. In the Eastern Pilbara I was 
seeing and hearing lots last month.
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> Date: Mon, 28 Sep 2015 11:23:06 +1000
> Subject: Re: [Birding-Aus] Where are the Pallid Cuckoos this year?
>
> Not seen or heard any in NW Tasmania yet. Unusual Geoff Shannon
>
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> Steve Clark
> Sent: Monday, 28 September 2015 10:55 AM
> To: Lawrie Conole <>; Birding-Aus
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> Subject: Re: [Birding-Aus] Where are the Pallid Cuckoos this year?
>
> G'day Lawrie
>
> None down this way for me yet but we don't get them in numbers every year.
> 2013-14 was a big year for them in the sw.  Might be a bit early still.  No
> sign of Trillers, Songlarks (Rufous or Brown) either and the Reed-Warblers
> have only just arrived.
>
> I might need to get out more of course.
>
> Cheers
> Steve Clark
> Hamilton
>
>
>
> On Mon, Sep 28, 2015 at 10:32 AM, Lawrie Conole <> wrote:
>
> > Hi
> >
> > I'm curious - are you? Normally by mid-August around where I live the air
> > is thick with the calls of Pallid Cuckoos. One can barely move through the
> > countrys
> ide edgewise without bumping into a few.
> > It's nearly October and I haven't heard one around home, or in various
> > other places up to Kyneton or down to Melton/Bacchus Marsh (southern edge
> > of central Victoria) where I've been in the last month. There are a few
> > bronze-cuckoos about (Shining and Horsfield's) and small numbers of
> > Fan-tailed Cuckoos (including night-calling birds with this full moon).
> >
> > Interested to hear from anyone who does have Pallid Cuckoos
> > arriving/arrived, or is this just a really odd year for the species?
> >
> > cheers
> >
> >
> > ++++++++++++
> > Dr Lawrie Conole
> > Tylden Vic 3444
> > Australia
> >
> > lconole [at] gmail.com
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