Description
The first illustration of the Channel-billed Cuckoo appeared in Governor Phillip’s account of the colony in 1789. The Channel-billed Cuckoo is the worlds largest cuckoo and was often incorrectly described as a Hornbill due it’s large beak.
Modern common names Channel-billed Cuckoo, Storm Bird, Fig Hawk and Flood Bird.
Modern binomial name Scythrops novaehollandiae
First described Latham 1790
Distribution WA, NT, QLD & NSW
Reference Reader’s Digest Book of Birds 2nd ed 1986 Page: p.326, ill.326
From Barrington’s, The History of New South Wales…
