And a Pheasant Coucal crossed the road slowly...

Driving along Hydes Creek Road a Pheasant Coucal walked across the wide road very, very slowly, keeping a good eye on the car. Then a quick dash under the barbed wire fence and the dense sedges. The Centropus phasianinus is a large 'pheasant-like', ground-dwelling cuckoo. Audio , AV cuckoos.

Image:
Alfred Brehm,  Brehm's Life of Animals (Possibly one of the 9,000 dead birds collected?)