Channel-billed cuckoo
- Description
- This is the largest cuckoo and also the largest brood parasite in the world. Species chosen as host include crows and Australian magpies. Although the newly hatched chick does not remove the hosts natural offspring, they usually die from starvation.
- Accession Loan No.
- B1337
- Collection Class
- Birds
- Common Name
- channel-billed cuckoo
- Simple Name
- bird
- Full Name
- CUCULIDAE: Scythrops novaehollandiae Latham: channel-billed cuckoo
- Period Classification
- Victorian (1837-1901)
- Family Group
- Collector / Excavator
- Cumming, Mr Robert
- Collection Country
- Australia
- Collection Area Region
- Australia and New Zealand
- Collection Continent
- Oceania
- Phylum
- CHORDATA: VERTEBRATA
- Family
- CUCULIDAE
- Genus
- Scythrops
- Species
- novaehollandiae
