Talk:Channel-billed cuckoo

GA

Actually this should be fairly straightforward to get to GA from here. Just a few more refs and things....Casliber (talk · contribs) 22:43, 11 March 2008 (UTC)

I planned to move it in that direction. Worth noting, however, that this is not a deeply studied species, so most of the refs will come out of HANZAB. Sabine's Sunbird talk 23:24, 11 March 2008 (UTC)

Channel-billed Cuckoo

I think I did something wrong when I added the link to esperanto, But I don't know what. Disappeared the taksonomiy, the images and appeared the majusculae. I'm sorry, I hope somebody coud repair or perhaps nothng is wrong because in last changes is nothing. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 81.40.180.120 (talk) 19:16, 16 March 2008 (UTC)

Fixed. Sabine's Sunbird talk 19:58, 16 March 2008 (UTC)

Eating Eucalyptus seeds

The article claims that these birds eat the seeds of Eucalyptus trees. This seems unlikely because Eucalyptus seeds are only about the size of a grain of sand, hard coated, with little endosperm, held within a woody capsule until released to fall to the ground and packed with unpalatable and toxic compounds. It seems incredible that a bird of this size would eat such tiny and hard-to-collect seeds at all, much less such highly toxic ones. Does anyone have a reputable reference for this claim, and if so can you elaborate how they collect such seeds. Presumably by foraging on the ground, unless they are somehow cracking the woody capsules as cockatoos sometimes do.Mark Marathon (talk) 01:01, 25 June 2012 (UTC)

New information

The channel-billed cuckoo breeds annually in central Australia; it frequently eats cicadas (which could perhaps have given rise to the belief it eats eucalyptus seeds? - see other comment questioning this) as well as native & introduced figs; the incubation period is now known (but, with several years' pers. obs., I should publish this material to provide an appropriate reference here). Skythrops (talk) 23:18, 8 October 2015 (UTC)

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