№ 71
Pacific Koel
Eudynamys orientalis
The koo-el that starts at 4am in October and does not let up until January. A cuckoo, so the wattlebirds and figbirds raise its enormous chick for it.
Photo · Ged Tranter · CC BY 4.0 · source · iNaturalist. Cropped and resized.
Call · Petra Holland · CC BY 4.0 · source · iNaturalist. Trimmed to 30 seconds, volume normalised.