Channel-billed Cuckoo
In Australia, Papua New Guinea
and Indonesia...a vagrant in New
Caledonia and New Zealand.
Scythrops novaehollandiae
(L 23–26" Wt 1.2–2.1 lb)
Brisbane
City Botanic Gardens
16Oct2015
Scythrops is from Ancient Greek
for
angry face; novaehollandia in
Mod Latin means
New Holland,
17th & 18th C. name for eastern
Australia
.
Largest cuckoo in the world.
© Marc Anderson
xeno-canto
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