A large Australian cuckoo bird with a distinctive deep call and bill structure.
Compound of 'channel' (possibly referring to its call's resonance) and 'bill' (the bird's beak). A native Australian bird known since European colonization.
The channelbill is a parasitic cuckoo that tricks other birds into raising its chicks—it's one of Australia's most successful invasive species, having spread from Indonesia only in the last 50 years!
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