Species Occurrence Record - Casa da Ayre - Belmont North
On Sunday 28th September at 8:45pm, my wife Amanda and I heard the distinctive call of a single Channel-billed cuckoo at our home in Belmont North. It was still Eastern Standard Time (Daylight Savings Time commences next weekend), and so quite dark outside.The reason I record this call is because Channel-billed cuckoos are a migratory species, and this is my first observation of the species for Spring 2014. I immediately unloaded the observation to the Atlas of Living Australia. If you are not aware of this site, it is a treasure of records. It's not perfect, but it's pretty darn good to indicate the likelihood of a species occurring in a particular area, and the time of year the species is likely to be active.
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