Sunday, May 3, 2015

BLACK-EARED CUCKOO

Photographed at Degray River Bridge, Western Australia, May 2015
586         BLACK-EARED CUCKOO             Chrysococcyx osculans

Australia            (429)

19-21 cm. Found in drier woodlands, scrublands,: mallee, mulga, lignum, saltmarsh, riverside thickets. Range: inland, drier coastal Aust. Breeding migrant to subcoastal s. Aust. Not e. coast, Vict. coast or Tasmania.