ML68028511
Contributor
Date
Location
- Age and sex
- Adult Male - X
- Sounds
- Song
- Playback
- Playback not used
Observation details
Initially found (with some encouragement) by water body at 1.5 km at 09:15. Bird flew from E side of road and landed in dead tree on W side of road where it perched silently in the open for at least 10 mins, occasionally moving to a different branch. Excellent scope views were had by all and photos taken. After 10 mins the cuckoo flew E over the road and disappeared into the wooded area. Between 09:30 and 11:05 I heard the bird give a couple of bursts of song c. 60 m from the road and out of sight. At 11:05 we found the cuckoo perched in the canopy of a eucalyptus tree where it gave several bursts of song before giving a couple of calls and flew to a tree further W and away from the road. A sound recording was obtained of one song phrase.
Technical information
- Recorder
- Olympus LS-10
- Microphone
- Sennheiser ME66
- Accessories
- Original file size
- 2.2 MB