Cuckoos (Cuculidae)
Channel-billed Cuckoo (Scythrops novaehollandiae) - HBW 4, p. 570
French: Coucou présageur
German: Fratzenkuckuck
Spanish: Cuco Tucán
Taxonomy: Scythrops novæ Hollandiæ Latham, 1790, New South Wales.
Monotypic.
Distribution: Breeds in Sulawesi, Buru and Flores, and N & E Australia; rarely occurs in Tasmania. Winters in Moluccas, Lesser Sundas, Aru Is, New Guinea and Bismarck Archipelago.
- Least Concern Enlarge map
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An adult perched on a branch and preening Locality Australia (Monotypic species)
Tom Tarrant 1995 6 years ago 40 sec 3.9 -
A bird calling high in a tree and flying away Locality Kingfisher Park, Julatten, Queensland, Australia (Monotypic species)
Keith Blomerley 7 November 2003 4 years ago 26 sec 3.6 -
An adult bird preening on a branch. Locality Currumbin Valley Reserve, Gold Coast, Queensland, Australia (Monotypic species)
Nick Talbot 26 December 2008 2 years ago 30 sec 3 -
An adult bird preening on a branch. Locality Currumbin Valley Reserve, Gold Coast, Queensland, Australia (Monotypic species)
Nick Talbot 26 December 2008 2 years ago 17 sec 3 -
An adult bird preening on a branch. Locality Currumbin Valley Reserve, Gold Coast, Queensland, Australia (Monotypic species)
Nick Talbot 26 December 2008 2 years ago 18 sec 2.5 -
Eight birds in a leafless tree Locality Kiunga, Papua New Guinea (mainland), New Guinea (Monotypic species)
Rigdon Currie 30 June 2005 5 years ago 11 sec 2.1
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Though large these birds are often hard to photograph as they are often secretive - this is a young bird
Locality Sherwood Arboretum, Sherwood, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia
David Taylor 1 January 2009 1 year ago 4 -
An adult Channel billed cuckoo
Locality Featherdale Wildlife Park, New South Wales, Australia
slr800 6 December 2010 1 year ago 3.8 -
A youngish bird in a tree
Locality Sherwood Arboretum, Sherwood, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia
David Taylor 1 January 2009 1 year ago 3.5 -
Adult perched in tree near house.
Locality Kobble Creek, Queensland, Australia
Tom Tarrant 28 September 2007 3 years ago 3 -
Juvenile being fed by foster parent, a Great Bowerbird
Locality Kakadu National Park, Northern Territory, Australia
Lindsay Hansch 17 July 2008 50 weeks ago 2.6 -
Adult bird.
Locality Cologne Zoo, Cologne, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany
Tomasz Doroń 8 July 2010 1 year ago 2.5
- No sound recordings available yet
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