channel-billed cuckoo

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English

A Channel-billed cuckoo (Scythrops novaehollandiae) viewed from below

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Noun

channel-billed cuckoo (plural channel-billed cuckoos)

  1. A large, grey cuckoo, Scythrops novaehollandiae, of Indonesia, New Guinea and northeastern Australia,
    • 2006, Alexis Wright, Carpentaria, Giramondo, published 2012, page 376:
      The channel-bill cuckoos disturbed one another, up in the skies, shouting in a frenzy of old man's cackle.