channel-bill cuckoo

English

Noun

channel-bill cuckoo (plural channel-bill cuckoos)

  1. Alternative form of channel-billed cuckoo.
    • 2006, Alexis Wright, Carpentaria, Constable (2009), page 361:
      The channel-bill cuckoos disturbed one another, up in the skies, shouting in a frenzy of old man’s crackle.