Hi
I just was searching for information on the common Koel & I found the site yesterday.
I had a pair of red wattlebirds nesting in our tree outside our house, after watching for a while I realized there baby was a cuckoo of some sort, all it would do is sit there all day & call & boy it grew so fast, the poor parents don't stop, even now he's so big but hes not like other birds that follow there parents to new food places he just sits around here calling constantly all day, to be honest with a baby calling all the time like that I wonder why he hasn't attracted a butcher bird, I will be so pleased when he leaves this area just so he will shut up, I observed a male Koel a couple times recently just sitting in the tree, I think he was checking out the parents feeding his baby for some reason, he sat there for quite a while & they never come down to those trees, you only hear them at a long distance normally.
I posted this here as well as in the introduction part.
