Fw: Brahminy Kites

A comment from Steve Debus. It would be useful if the observer was able to contact Steve directly to expand on the observation. Regards Shirley Cook —– Original Message —– From: “Steve Debus” < sdebus@une.edu.au> To: “Shirley Cook” < shirleycook@skymesh.com.au> Sent: Monday, July 06, 2015 8:43 AM Subject: RE: [Birding-Aus] Brahminy Kites Hi Shirley, I haven’t heard of Channel-bills raised by any raptor other than a claim I’ve seen somewhere, maybe in HANZAB (vol. 4?), of parasitising a Collared Sparrowhawk nest, and I don’t know how verifiable that is (probably not now). The thing is that fledged cuckoos will beg to and get fed by anything, including multiple species that didn’t raise the cuckoo in their nest. If the Brahminy Kites raised the Channel-bill in their own nest from egg to fledgling, this is significant and should be properly reported in an archived journal, not just in some online chat forum. I wonder if a newly fledged Channel-bill could just commandeer a stick nest and try to get fed there by whatever owned the nest. Cheers, Steve —–Original Message—– From: Shirley Cook [mailto:shirleycook@skymesh.com.au] Sent: Monday, 6 July 2015 7:13 AM To: Steve Debus Subject: Fw: [Birding-Aus] Brahminy Kites Any comment Steve? —– Original Message —– From: “Andrew Thelander” < thelander.a@gmail.com> To: “birding-aus” < birding-aus@birding-aus.org> Sent: Sunday, July 05, 2015 5:20 PM Subject: [Birding-Aus] Brahminy Kites > Hi all > > Has anyone ever heard of Brahminy kites raising a Channel-billed cuckoo? > > Regards > > Andrew > > > > > > > >