channel-billed cuckoo
English
Alternative forms
- channel-bill cuckoo
Noun
channel-billed cuckoo (plural channel-billed cuckoos)
- A large, grey cuckoo, Scythrops novaehollandiae, of Indonesia, New Guinea and northeastern Australia,
- 2006, Alexis Wright, Carpentaria, Giramondo 2012, p. 376:
- The channel-bill cuckoos disturbed one another, up in the skies, shouting in a frenzy of old man's cackle.
- 2006, Alexis Wright, Carpentaria, Giramondo 2012, p. 376: