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drongo cuckoo (Surniculus lugubris)

See here for more on my visit to the bird park: http://www.zoochat.com/249/penang-bird-park-13-april-2014-a-360901/

drongo cuckoo (Surniculus lugubris)
Chlidonias, 18 Apr 2014
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    • Chlidonias
      18 Apr 2014
    • threeple61
      Such a beauty! ! the cuckoos are the highlight of this collection for me... any signs that they were mixed with their hosts to try and encourage breeding?
      18 Apr 2014
    • Chlidonias
      no they were mostly individuals, probably just random additions amongst other wild-caught species. There was just one Malaysian hawk-cuckoo, one banded bay cuckoo, one chestnut-winged cuckoo, one chestnut-breasted malkoha, one lesser coucal, I think two (maybe three) male koels -- and a whole lot of drongo cuckoos!

      Drongo cuckoos parasitise babblers, and there were none in the aviary with them.
      18 Apr 2014
    • threeple61
      With regard to other cuckoos, most species kept are actually non-parasitic, but I know of a few collections that have the channel-billed cuckoo in Australia. Are these kept with their currawong/magpie lark/butcherbird hosts?
      18 Apr 2014
    • Chlidonias
      I've never seen them mixed with currawongs in aviaries. I would imagine if they were the currawongs would kill them. I think channel-bills in Australian zoos are probably "rescue" birds.
      18 Apr 2014
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