Birds · Not heard for 32 days.
Brown Cuckoo-Dove
Macropygia phasianella
First heard here 19 Sept · last heard 5 Oct · 4 days in the last year · 5 detections on record
Hear it
A clear recording song, recorded in Australia
Marc Anderson, xeno-canto, CC BY-NC-ND 4.0. Trimmed to 20 seconds.
What to look for
The brown cuckoo-dove is a dove in the genus Macropygia found in Australia from Weipa and Aurukun in the north to Bega in the south, and most inland at Atherton and Toowoomba. It is sometimes called the "brown pigeon" or "pheasant pigeon", but both terms are best avoided, as they can lead to confusion with the brown doves and the true pheasant pigeon. It was one of three new species defined when the slender-billed cuckoo-dove was split in 2016.
Read more on Wikipedia (Brown cuckoo-dove)
When it has been heard
Busiest day so far: Monday 5 October, 2 detections between 10:20am and 11:44pm.
Time of day
Busiest around 10am. From 4 days with hourly counts.
| Day | Heard | First | Last | Peak confidence |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 5 Oct | 2 | 10:20am | 11:44pm | 77% |
| 26 Sept | 1 | 12:00pm | 12:00pm | 76% |
| 21 Sept | 1 | 3:16pm | 3:16pm | 94% |
| 19 Sept | 1 | 6:53pm | 6:53pm | 86% |
Detections are automatic and can be wrong.