channel-billed cuckoo

English

A Channel-billed cuckoo (Scythrops novaehollandiae) viewed from below

Alternative forms

• channel-bill cuckoo

Noun

channel-billed cuckoo (plural channel-billed cuckoos)

1. A large, grey cuckoo, Scythrops novaehollandiae, of Indonesia, New Guinea and northeastern Australia,
   • 2006, Alexis Wright, Carpentaria, Giramondo, published 2012, page 376:

     The channel-bill cuckoos disturbed one another, up in the skies, shouting in a frenzy of old man's cackle.