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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Natalie" data-source="post: 1548207" data-attributes="member: 51128">Thanks for the replies everyone!The I listened to the calls of the raven and crow, and honestly, they both sound like what I heard there! I think both species might have been present there - I recall seeing multiple times small groups of crows/ravens chasing other crows/ravens... I had assumed it was just family members chasing a foreign individual of the same species, but I suppose it could have been crows chasing ravens (or vice versa).The site didn't have any recordings of the additional creepy calls the birds made, but the cawing from the third Torresian Crow recording and the recording of the Australian Raven both sound familiar... The crow a bit moreso, which would make sense if they are more abundant in the area. I was actually about an hour north of Rockhampton near a tiny town called Marlborough.The bronze-cuckoo was not actually in the city of Cairns either, it was recorded somewhere west of the city on the Atherton Tableland... We went through Mossman, then on some westbound highway over the mountains and into a dry Eucalypt woodland, and that's where the cuckoo was seen. The total drive was about an hour (maybe slightly less?) from Cairns.I guess that will complicate the identification a bit since the Horsfield's would also be present in that area. The barring on the bottom really looks like Gould's to me, though... I don't know how to tell the difference between the tails on the two species. One just has a bit more rufous color than the other?</blockquote>

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