In my experience, koels almost invariably call from cover. You can hear them
but they lurk in such thick foliage that you can rarely see them calling.
I was riding my bike up a hill in the southern suburbs of Brisbane around 6 am
this morning when I heard some classic koel grunting. I saw a male koel
perched less than a metre above the ground in an open shrub on the footpath.
It remained in the shrub until I was within 2 metres of it and then flew off.
I had a good look at its red eye. Shortly after a female koel broke cover from
a low position about 10 metres away, calling as it flew.
I was wondering what they were up to. You don’t normally get that close to
koels. I thought they might have been nest raiding. If that was the case, the
host species would be one comfortable nesting at a fairly low level ...
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