The Channel-billed Cuckoo is the largest parasitic cuckoo in the world. The female lays her eggs in the nests of the Australian Magpie, Gymnorhina tibicen, the Pied Currawong, Strepera graculina and members of the crow family (Corvidae). Unlike many other cuckoos, the young birds do not evict the host's young or eggs from the nest, but simply grow faster and demand all the food, thus starving the others. Often the adult female will damage the existing eggs in the nest when she lays her own and she may even lay more than one egg in a single nest.
Shoot the buggers I say. They are the most awful birds in the world. We had two currawongs rearing three damned channel billed cuckoos last year and they were evil.
