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Cuckoo, Pallid

Cacomantis pallidus


Prefers lightly timbered country with sparse understory.
Summer migrant to s Australia, present in n Australia all year round. Brood
parasitises species with open nests, mainly honeyeaters, also robins and
woodswallows.

The Australian Bird Guide, Peter Menkhorst et al

Classifications: Bird, forest and grassland
Family: Cuculidae
Information sources: Photo taken at Tedlands by Robert Werner

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