Channel Billed Cuckoo

This is not strictly a 'sailing" post, it describes a sight I've never seen before. On an early morning walk, we saw a huge bird begging for food from a currawong.  The poor currawong was doing it's best to feed it as quickly as possible but clearly not keeping up with this enormous baby bird's appetite.

We discovered later the "baby" bird was a channel billed cuckoo (ugly). These are migratory parasite birds that remove the eggs from other birds nest (often currawongs and other larger birds) and replace it with their own. The cuckoo chick that hatches is then raised by the surrogate mother.

The photos below are from the internet but they reflected exactly what we saw...seriously weird.