The marvellous bird shown in the photograph below is apparently a Pheasant Coucal (also known as a Swamp Pheasant). You would think, at least from the perspective of a nominative determinist that it would be a pheasant, and yet it is not. It is in fact a member of the cuckoo family.
Unlike a cuckoo however, [...]
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Tag Archives: birds
Pheasant Coucal (Centropus phasianinus)
September 25, 2008 – 3:51 pm
A bird we saw this morning…
September 24, 2008 – 3:19 pm
Here we are on Magnetic Island. Dad has a place. It is hot and I am on holiday. Blogging continues of course.
Today’s animal is a bird we saw this morning.
As big as a small loaf of bread with feathers and a long tail.
It landed on the front fence, flapped a bit and jumped onto the [...]
The Lesser Sooty Owl (tyto multipunctata)
September 12, 2008 – 1:19 pm
Welcome to the firstblogonthemoon. The main theme for this blog will be my highly uneducated views on flora and fauna, specifically, a daily investigation of a particular beast, phenomena or thingy. This blog will be characterised by a lackadaisical approach to research and occasionally simply making things up. It will at times have a relationship [...]
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