Channel-billed Cuckoo Attack's Currawong Nest

Channel Bill Cuckoo, biggest cuckoo on the planet, and the ancient, ongoing war with the Pied Currawong and her nest.

[@alexferguson1139]

I've always been amazed by the fact that Noisy Miners join in attacking the cuckoo even though their nests aren't targeted. Every time I see a channel billed cuckoo being chased or swooped at there is always a group of miners participating

[@DL-ey6tu]

The Miners are territorial. They just want the Cuckoo gone from their area.

[@melblanch6774]

Such efficient evolution for the cuckoo; flies south, snacks, lays an egg and heads back north to enjoy her free time til next year! Heartbreaking for the currawong. Last year, our local currawong had TWO channel bills to care for, she never got a break! Great video, thanks.

[@BASCILLICUS]

this is seriously breathtaking footage.

[@glwendt]

Channel bills get the water blaster treatment at our place - we love our currawongs.

[@nicolematcham1950]

Lol well done

[@emilythomson2862]

Currawongs actually decimate local small bird populations, like wrens, so these Channel Bills help to keep their numbers under control.

[@pacomarveeny9640]

Currawongs have brutally killed off all of Sydney’s small birds such as wrens, finches and whip birds. Channel Bills have helped minimise the numbers of currawongs breeding in sydney, and now we are finally starting to see small birds make a return. Currawongs are meant to be in the Great Dividing Range to breed, not in Sydney. Over the last few decades, they’ve started to stay in sydney year round and kill smaller bird species to use as food for their own brood, or simply as for food for themselves. Natures karma, natures eco system.

[@fingerprint5511]

Good! There are Cuckoo babies here been run ragged by poor Currawong parents and the screaming is doing my head in.

[@exidy-yt]

Excellent camera work of a sad but wholly natural event. If there is a silver lining at all for the Currawong pair, they at least weren't left a changeling in the nest by the Cuckoo and be trapped into feeding and raising it. They may have time to make a new nest and try again before the season is over.

[@ecmswagger]

Apparently they may come back to exact revenge if their previously laid egg gets rejected.

[@wildhoopproductions]

This currawong successfully raises a chick on the next season. She looked very proud of herself.

[@janeencramond5568]

Fascinating, have a currawong in my garden at moment building a nest. Painstakingly chooses each twig with care.

[@judithessex-clark9591]

Just watched it all. Noisy minors and everything. Totally heart breaking :( Thanks for the beautiful commentary. Going to learn archery ;)

[@wildhoopproductions]

It is hard but it's always sobering to know currawongs raid nests too. It's bird eat bird out there.

[@SydneyBirdbath]

Thank you for so nicely documenting this all too common event. Many different species of birds do that to each other in Australia.The Channel Billed Cuckoo is [EDIT this is incorrect: “from overseas”] migratory, so they’re local but travel, and are part of the local native ecology. Thankfully this time it didn't lay its own egg! My currawong nest was under threat but somehow they got the Cuckoo really high and were able to fight it off in the sky. It moved onto another nest in the distance. My nest was eventually invaded by Magpies! Then the Currawongs and Magpies had a "2 day war", followed by no Magpies for about 2 months.

[@stevejuneau2395]

Do you have footage?

[@SydneyBirdbath]

@@stevejuneau2395 No, I had been videoing the nest building and had figured out the eggs were about to hatch in a few days, but then went away for 2 days, super bad timing. When I returned there was an ongoing battle between Currawongs and Magpies, and unfortunately the nest was abandoned.

[@padmister123]

Its also native to Australia. Its a migratory bird. It spends half the year here and half the year overseas. Its not invasive its a natural part of Australian ecology.

[@wildhoopproductions]

I often wonder why we don't see them as Australian birds considering the fact they are born, and grow up, here.

[@TheCandiceWang]

She will come back to lay her egg. And no, these are not invasive to AUS.

[@GS-st9ns]

As fascinating and unsettling as that was watching a cuckoo eat 3 eggs just swallow them whole, I still wished you would intervene. I know its nature and I know it's a video , but in my heart of hearts I was hoping you would stop the ambush that takes place in nature. Fascinating narration. Great photography

[@codeosagie]

Thank you.

[@realvipul]

Great currawong built the nest next to humans window hoping human will deter any attack but hooman had other idea. Hooman wanted to create a sensational video

[@alexanderburns1412]

Wow... quite depressing... even sadder was how the mother searched for so long. But I guess that’s nature.

[@KuroCartoonist]

eggs swallowed whole. didn't know that was possible. Savage!

[@PMWorkshop]

Thank you very good sad though

[@icezoo4143]

Thanks, explains what's happening in our backyard at the moment.

[@LycheeGirl816]

So that’s what all that racket was outside my window a few months back! Saw a currawong attacking a huge grey bird and wondered what it was. Thank you for the explanation, wonderful video!

[@Poopy_butt_Joe]

All the pains she went through to lay those eggs. 😥

[@playdoughmaster808]

I love how the whole time the cuckoo is just looking around like “what are ya doing guys?”

[@alan30189]

Great video-work! You have a beautiful voice, Audrey!

[@juanabalderrama8193]

alan30189 👋

[@fredatalk5275]

We have a currawong nest outside the bedroom window too. I was very excited and have been observing the chick grows until one day I found out the baby is cuckoo baby... how sad! Currawong took care and fed cuckoo that may attack their eggs soon.

[@jasmineamorgan]

dang I just realized why they refer "crazy people" as cuckoo! All these cuckoo vids i've seen is just crazy!

[@victoriashiko7172]

It true we have people’s who behaved like cockoo

[@TheCandiceWang]

Yes!!

[@Med1na2012]

Just witnessed the same thing here in Sydney. Amazing stuff. What appears chaotic on one level is harmony on another. Just like the human body it’s amazing.

[@JLjljljljl989]

I’ve only just discovered that we have cuckoos in australia. They are hideous birds 🤮 I wouldn’t have been able to stop myself intervening.

[@jamaicanbobsled7603]

This is happening as I type this near my apartment.

[@Spiderxboo]

That's some good narrative. You should definitely fill out for a job on NatGeo.

[@alanafisher3506]

This is so sad. Thanks for your storytelling.

[@superjajamen]

Thank you for this video :)

[@theambs1]

I hate cuckoo birds, with a passion.

[@9798angel]

Only dislike the invasive part....good video of raw nature though!

[@SKIPPERBIRDWOOD]

Brilliant video, thankyou

[@angeldedios7377]

We blame humans for being so inhumane,but at least we don't steal other people's kids to eat them.It's a jungle out there with birds.

[@herveybaysnakecatchers]

Great video! So informative and well put together. It was quite sad to watch also must admire these birds and that it’s all part of ecology

[@FrancisMburukamunyu]

Thank you

[@SUN-it6rf]

Though very sad , you did an amazing job of narrating the event. Nature is cruel at it's best. God bless you. 🤗🤗

[@beaksofeagles]

Why did you put an apostrophe in attacks?

[@kuldeepjalandra5534]

Very touching video.

[@shou7310]

love the noisy miners coming in as well. they are funny little birds

[@camixox56]

Was this perhaps filmed in Randwick? It looks very much like where I lived

[@toy200sx]

Very good video.

[@nope24601]

We have such an urge to intervene. Is this hubris or honor?

[@parkinfurkmaz2877]

Wow, I had no idea that was a currawong call I hear every morning when I get out of bed in the morning. I've never seen them before. Or perhaps their call is similar a magpie's, which I see in abundance on my street.

[@TenOrbital]

They look similar but yellow eyes, a bit bigger than magpies and magpies have white on their bodies

[@Turd_Eating_Dog]

Cuckoo bird is just exploring itself spiritually.

[@pacomarveeny9640]

It was Mercury retrograde basically.

[@Youneverknow222]

Great footage and narration! Subscribed! May I askwhere this was taken?

[@ThatRandomMC]

I feel sorry for the poor Currawong they're me favourite bird

[@wildhoopproductions]

She had two successful chicks this season. All 3 visit a lot.

[@bertolinamaffei1961]

Parabéns e sucesso para seu canal

[@DodderingOldMan]

I saw a currawong feeding a channel billed cuckoo just the other day, actually the second time I've seen such a thing in the last year or so. I was honestly surprised just how big the cuckoo was... a currawong is a reasonable sized bird, but the cuckoo dwarfed it.

[@WaynesAdventure]

Wow amazing to see this great footage you captured but so sad for the mother bird

[@AaravPlayz777]

Thats so evil and plus that chanel billed cuckoo is waking me up at 4 am by making creepy noises

[@xyoojmabchannel1456]

Hello I like 😀😀🤝👉🔔💕💕thanks

[@joesix-pack4022]

A couple months ago I saw a magpie feeding a bird about its own size. I thought the 'baby' could be a cuckoo. Today I saw the younger bird again - definitely a channel-billed cuckoo juvenile. And it still fusses and cries and nags its "mother" for food, although now much bigger than "mum". I've often seen the magpie take food out of our cat's bowl and give it to the cuckoo!

[@thylacoleo]

Very powerful

[@praburammadhan2618]

That's so sad....😭😭 If I were you I would do something.... Why couldn't you do something?.....

[@MarleyPeifer]

thanks for sharing.

[@oysterman962]

We have those annoying cuckoos on the northern beaches. I think the council should specifically breed and train hawks to hunt and kill them.

[@The.Ancient.1.]

Air rifles would do a quicker and humane job, I hate cuckoos.

[@maxwalker1159]

Fascinating

[@conorsirishnature998]

Currawongs do the same to other nests

[@wildhoopproductions]

Yes they do indeed. This Currawong had a successful nest this season Happy ending

[@bill091086]

Such dramatic narrative......and then.... the attack!!!!

[@sophiabrown9423]

That's nature for you.

[@mazspeed003]

Ive seen those cuckoo birds i wondered what they were..being such a big bird....but dont the currawongs an magpies do the same thing to other birds?

[@robynej7191]

They do. They eat the young, and the adults of smaller birds.

[@robynej7191]

See Paco's comment above^ ^ .

[@abukhalidali1823]

Why tge hell this bird moved in first place could have stayed on her nest

[@SONORSQ2guy]

Cuckoo 👍

[@deaniversen351]

more parasite birds as management stands back and says "hmm", scratches its head, the cuckoo is smarter than the management

[@U.s.e.r.3493]

Well nature's pretty brutal hey..damn

[@roddoel1028]

I saw this happen a couple of years ago to a raven, This year its a black faced cuckoo shrike, Mother nature is a bitch just the way it is beautiful & cruel

[@5mudgee]

A .22 would fix this parisiste quick smart

[@woodywiss9971]

just like getting raided on rust

[@cynthiamcwhorter6721]

That was one ugly cuckoo

[@jerejaneoslo2838]

Maen kuwe

[@AaravPlayz777]

I feel bad for the mum😢😢

[@Badrattlesnake]

Nature ! nothing wrong with it .move on to next video

[@poor_impulsive]

bad ass

[@beaksofeagles]

Karma. Currawongs have done this to so many smaller birds' nests in my garden. And they take the solitary lyrebird egg from the nest too.

[@jimmyjay689]

I find it strange that people are shocked when humans kill humans, yet u see that in nature all the time...Birds kill Birds, Lions kill lions, etc.

[@glb4010]

Why do these birds need to be so extra... its like they didn't even want to evolve. As if their primary purpose in life is to annoy everything.

[@reubencaldwell8494]

They're excellent seed dispensers and they prevent other birds from becoming too prolific.

[@blobbertmcblob4888]

That's what evolution does. One species finds a niche that works and they stick with it.

[@FairladyS130]

They must be influenced by China.

[@cookie856]

Aren't cuckos insectivores?

[@drive9997]

Nice

[@zoe-7777]

Yeah….hijacking other ppls channel, im well aware

[@user-us7yy3tr6c]

?

[@reddragon8896]

Yet you didn’t stop the bad bird

[@peter-robinson]

is it really a bad bird? it’s just a bird doing its thing.

[@alexmcphersen8664]

I would have helped the currawong get rid of the shitbird cuckoo. Rock, arrow, bullet etc. I dont care what anyone says, I would totally f up the dirty bastard cuckoo bird to save the chicks.

kill the cuckoo where ever you see it ...its equal to killing evil

[@leelavantishah5209]

Ur help to this kuku bird. Note record to video so sad 😭😢😥😭😭

[@MrB590]

Not trying hard enough mother currawong

[@dianashypula]

What a karma - poor cuckoo, the whole life is to be harassed by other birds ((

[@madhubala7975]

Cuckoo is always the one that lays its egg on others nest . Those cuckoo chiks kill the rest of the chiks who really own that nest!! The adoptive parent birds feed that murder cuckoo even tho it killed their own chicks. Pls watch other videos. U will come to know. It's all survival fight for cuckoo

[@maxhome69]

An Air rifle once see something like this and let it all the eggs better digesting

[@DIB10Youssef]

and you just watch this :( why you don't go help them ...ts

[@blobbertmcblob4888]

How exactly would you help? If they chased the bird off, it would just come back. The parents will have just laid a new clutch, that's what birds do.

[@NoTaboos]

"Attack's" ??? You cant even write a proper English title.