Birds · An occasional visitor rather than a resident.

Brush Cuckoo

Cacomantis variolosus

First heard here 19 Sept · last heard 26 Oct · 5 days in the last year · 8 detections on record

Hear it

A clear recording song, recorded in Australia

Étienne Leroy, xeno-canto, CC BY-NC-SA 4.0. Trimmed to 20 seconds.

Heard here by the park sensor, 90% match

Raw and a bit distant; the bird was somewhere in the park, not next to the microphone.

What to look for

The Sahul brush cuckoo, formerly known as the brush cuckoo, is a member of the cuckoo family. It is native to Malesia, New Guinea, the Solomon Islands and northern and eastern Australia. It is a grey-brown bird with a buff breast. Its call is a familiar sound of the Australian and Indonesian bush.

Read more on Wikipedia (Sahul brush cuckoo)

When it has been heard

Detections per day, last 30 days. Heard on 1 of them.

Busiest day so far: Sunday 20 September, 3 detections between 4:50am and 4:52am.

Time of day

When it calls, last 30 days. Darker is busier.

Busiest around 4am. From 5 days with hourly counts.

Day	Heard	First	Last	Peak confidence
26 Oct	1	5:30am	5:30am	87%
4 Oct	1	12:07pm	12:07pm	81%
27 Sept	2	4:59am	5:07am	90%
20 Sept	3	4:50am	4:52am	84%
19 Sept	1	4:28am	4:28am	84%

Detections are automatic and can be wrong.