Bird of the Week Invitation: LX
For this weeks Bird of the Week, I want to show you a bit about the Fan-tailed Cuckoo Cacomantis flabelliformis, a bird I have had here once that I am aware
Fan-tailed Cuckoos are found throughout eastern Australia, south-western Western Australia and Tasmania. Birds in Tasmania migrate to the mainland in the non-breeding season.
They live in open woodlands that have good understory. The Fan-tailed Cuckoo enjoys hairy caterpillars in its diet, but will also take a variety of other insects and their larvae.
You want to hear their peeeer?
REF: http://www.graemechapman.com.au/index.php
As with most other species of Australian cuckoos, the Fan-tailed Cuckoo is a brood parasite; laying its eggs in the nests of other species of birds. Host species include flycatchers, fairy-wrens, scrubwrens and thornbills, particularly the Brown Thornbill, Acanthiza pusilla. A single egg is laid in the nest and one of the host’s eggs removed. The young cuckoo generally hatches earlier than the host’s eggs and proceeds to eject the other eggs or hatchlings. The seemingly unaware foster parents then rear the cuckoo chick.
REF: https://www.birdsinbackyards.net/species/Cacomantis-flabelliformis
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