Pallid Cuckoo

Pallid Cuckoo (Image ID 54562)
Photographed byMichael Hamel-Green on Thu 1st Dec, 2022 and uploaded on Sun 4th Dec, 2022 .
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ID54562
CommentThis was my first sighting of a Pallid Cuckoo, discovered at Crusoe Reservoir, Bendigo. It had presumably arrived from inland or northern areas to take advantage of the spring and early summer breeding seasons down south, where it lays its brood eggs in the nests of honeyeaters, woodswallows, robins and willie-wagtails, as well as many other bird species. I did not hear its very insistent rising repetitive call but the poet Andrew Lansdowne has described it well:
“Today I heard the pallid cuckoos
Summoning each other in the forest
For solace, sex and surrogacy.
For the first time this year
I heard their mournful crescendos
Rising above the thin canopies”
(“Birds in Mind”, Wombat Books, Capalaba Qld, 2009, p.213)
EquipmentNikon Z7ii Nikkor 500mm PF f5.6 TC1.4
700mm
ISO 400
1/500th f8
LocationCrusoe Reservoir, Bendigo, Victoria
Keywordsadult
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